Linguistic Interaction and Participation in Media Discourses (seminar S47 at ESSE 2012)
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Workshop |
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| Description | Various media forms and genres offer new modes of communication, necessitating modifications in the participation framework underlying interactions. The classic dyadic (speaker-writer) model of communication appears to be obsolescent in reference to the diversified communicative genres, whether private or public, facilitated by the media and technology. The workshop addresses the following topics: (1) participation framework and participation in traditional media discourses (e.g. televised/film/radio discourse) and other public discourses, whether or not mediatised, and (2) the nature of interaction and conversation in novel discourses related to computer-mediated communication (e.g. social media such as Facebook and Twitter, instant messaging and chat, blogs, or new forms of online journalism). More specifically, the following issues are addresssed: fictional, scripted and natural conversation; the status of TV viewers; linguistic traces of (un)ratifies participants beyond the dyad; and (mis)comprehension of meaning within/beyond the dyad. The seminar combines various analytic perspectives, including pragmatics of interaction, conversation and discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, and multimodality. |