Matters of Opinion - Talking About Public Issues

Informationen zum Autor Greg Myers is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, University of Lancaster. Klappentext This book offers an interesting insight into 'public opinion' as reported in the media. Zusammenfassung Matters of Opinion offers an interesting insight into 'public opinion' as reported in the media. Drawing on conversations from focus groups! phone-ins and broadcast interviews! Greg Myers asks where these opinions actually come from! and how they have their effects! and what it means to participate in public life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Transcription conventions; Focus-group data; 1. Paradoxes of opinion; 2. A tool kit for analysing group discussions; 3. Forums for opinion: 'what is it that's going on here?'; 4. Institutions of opinion: voice of the people?; 5. Topics in interaction: 'why that now?'; 6. Agreeing and disagreeing: maintaining sociable argument; 7. Representing speech: other voices, other places; 8. Questioning expertise: who says?; 9. Radio phone-ins: mediated sociable arguments; 10. Vox pop television interviews: constructing the public; 11. Opinions as talk; References; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Greg Myers
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.10.2004
• EAN: 9780521793124
• ISBN: 978-0-521-79312-4
• Seiten: 280
• Serie: Studies in Interactional Socio
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Politik; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politisches System