RT Journal Article
SR Electronic(1)
A1 Gregori-Signes, Carmen
YR 2000
T1 The tabloid talkshow as a quasi-conversational type of face-to-face interaction
JF Pragmatics
VO 10
IS 2
SP 195
OP 213
DO https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.10.2.02gre
PB John Benjamins
SN 1018-2101,
AB Media discourse, and in particular programmes such as talkshows, are certainly practices that have extended, enriched, and often taken to the limits, conversation as a speech event. The number of possibilities arising from conversational practice have certainly found a new dimension in the context of the mass media, and on TV in particular (cf. Vande Berg et al. 1991 and 1998). In this article I describe tabloid talkshows as one type of speech event. I focus on the description of the turn-taking organisation in tabloid talkshows by comparing their characteristics to those outlined by Sacks et al. (1974) for conversation. In order to carry out such comparison, I first propose a review and, consequently, a reform of the 14 features listed by Sacks et al. in their article ‘A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking in conversation’. The results show that there are differences between both types of interaction.,
UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/prag.10.2.02gre