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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 20:47:01
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres: Fetzer, Weizman (eds.)

 


Title: The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres 
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 307  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.307 


Editor: Anita Fetzer
Editor: Elda Weizman

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261977 Pages: 297 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261977 Pages: 297 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261977 Pages: 297 Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204288 Pages: 297 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204288 Pages: 297 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204288 Pages: 297 Price: Europe EURO 100.70


Abstract:

Departing from the premise that ‘being ordinary’ is brought into the discourse
and brought out in the discourse and is thus an interactional achievement, the
contributions to this edited volume investigate its construction,
reconstruction and deconstruction in media discourse. Ordinariness is
perceived as a scalar notion which is conceptualised against the background of
both non-ordinariness and extra-ordinariness. The chapters address its
strategic construction across media genres (public talk, Prime Minister’s
Questions, interview, radio call-in, commenting) and discursive activities
(tweets, social media posts) as done in various languages (American English,
Austrian German, British English, Chinese, French, Finnish, Hebrew and
Japanese) by professional participants (e.g., politicians, journalists,
scientists) and by ordinary people participating in media discourse (e.g.,
ordinary citizens, viewers, members of the audience). Discursive strategies
used to bring about (non/extra) ordinariness include small stories,
quotations, conversational style, irony, naming and addressing as well as
references to the private-public interface.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics


Written In: English  (eng)

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