Titlebook: Real Talk: Reality Television and Discourse Analysis in Action; Nuria Lorenzo-Dus (Professor in English Language a Book 2013 Palgrave Macm

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‘No eres inteligente ni para tener amigos… Pues anda que tú’ [‘You are not even clever enough to havtimes it was difficult to find many such programmes. Along with pseudo-debates and talk shows of different kinds (Grindstaff 2002; Patrona 2006; Brenes 2007; Lorenzo-Dus 2007, 2009a; Hutchby 2008; Garcés-Conejos Blitvich 2009, 2013; Garcés-Conejos Blitvich . 2010; Fuentes 2013), researchers have rec

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‘You are killing your kids’: framing and impoliteness in a health makeover reality TV show, the nutrition expert directly, and very negatively, evaluates the children’s health habits and tells parents ‘you are killing your kids’. Following an understanding of impoliteness as tied to identity (e.g., Garcés-Conejos Blitvich 2009), the expert’s discourse is readily interpretable as ‘impolit

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Moments of truth: telling it like it is on merely reflect the ‘reality’ it depicts, then perhaps a talk show can be analysed as one particular way of constructing a version of that ‘reality’. In Foucaultian terms, reality TV might be understood as a discursive formation; as a set of institutional practices that construct their objects, in r

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Discourse approaches to the study of reality television noted that, even within this approach, different theoretical and methodological frameworks can be fruitfully drawn upon in order to examine the two key themes covered in this book: identity and aggression. This chapter is thus intended to equip readers whose background is not in discourse analysis

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How ‘real’ is reality television in China? On the success of a Chinese dating programmemedia productions ‘a(chǎn)re exported around the world and set the standard for local media production’ (Laughey 2007, p. 122). Furthermore, according to Laughey, Theodor Adorno’s theory of media and culture suggests the idea of ‘standardization’ whereby the ‘pursuit of consumer demand generates superfici

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The (inter)play of nationality, religiosity and gender: textual mechanisms for the rich representatiation of ethnic and sociocultural diversity may promote democratization and pluralism, previous research indicates that this positive potential is significantly limited by reliance on conservative schemes and stereotypes. The present study aims at examining the full potential of reality television t

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‘There’s no harm, is there, in letting your emotions out’: a multimodal perspective on language, emoemotionality. In so doing, this chapter is intended as a novel contribution to linguistic research on reality television, the majority of which has tended to focus on reality TV programmes and genres that centre around conflict rather than less conflict-rich shows such as . (henceforth also ‘MCA’).