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Author(s): Firth A
Editor(s): Firth, A.
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Language Travels: A Festschrift for Torben Vestergaard
Year: 2003
Pages: 131-142
Publisher: Aalborg University Press
Place Published: Denmark
Notes: This paper uncovers and explicates a variety of talk-based and gestural methods through which politicians involved in a televised debate programme (on the news network 'CNN') infuse their behaviour with an antagonistic and confrontational tenor, and by so doing attempt to establish their viewpoints as valid and compelling, while simulteneously undermining their 'opponents'' viewpoints. The paper is one of the first publications that shows how television programme producers, who make decisions as to who is in frame (and thereby exposed to television viewers) as talk unfolds, are sensitive to and influenced by the rhetorical strategies and argumentative behaviour of the interactants. This entails a form of 'collusion' amongst the implicated parties - television producers, hosts, and debate participants. The paper thus initiates research into what I have termed the 'mediatization' of politics in modern democracies.
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ISBN: 9788789170848
