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