Verbal Interaction in the Media
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Workshop |
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| Description | A workshop held at the Diversification nad its Discontents: Dynamics of the Discipline. 9th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies. The workshop addressed various issues related to the study of discourse and verbal interaction in the media. The contributions discussed a wide range of topics from both written and spoken media (including modern electronic media), such as political rhetoric and bias, representation of social actors and stereotyping, discourse structures and patterns, etc. The contributions applied the methodologies of discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and genre analysis, but they also included other approaches and inter-disciplinary applications. |