Television Discourse

NURIA LORENZO-DUS is Reader in the in the Department of English Language and Literature at Swansea University, UK. She has published widely on media discourse and cross-cultural pragmatics in international journals, such as Media, Culture& Society and Journal of Pragmatics, and is currently involved in an AHRC funded project on mediated memory and commemoration.

Abbreviations.- List of Extracts, Tables and Figures.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- PART I: STORYTELLING Storytelling...or the Entertaining Construction of Reality.- Once Upon a Time in a Documentary.- Once Upon a Time in a Talk Show.- PART II: CLOSENESS Closeness...or How Television Gets Up Close and Personal.- Live News and Closeness.- 'Close' Talk and Moral Worthiness.- PART III: CONFLICT Conflict...or the Rise of Spectacular Incivility.- Emotional Conflict Talk and Reality Television.- Conflict Talk and Politics.- PART IV: PERSUASION Persuasion...or the Art of Occultatio.- Persuasion, Politics and Television.- Persuasion and Lifestyle Television.- Interacting in a Broadcast Medium: Some Final Words.- Glossary.- Guide to Further Reading.- Bibliography.- Index.