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. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Greg Myers
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.08.2008
• EAN: 9780521075794
• ISBN: 978-0-521-07579-4
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Studies in Interactional Socio
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book