Lingua Inglese 1 LM Spoken narrative and media

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Lingua Inglese 1 LM Spoken narrative and media

• ANALYSING MEDIA TALK 1
• Video blogs and news talk

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Video narratives v text

• Voice (sound, intonation, rhythm)
• Facial expression
• Movement
• Different context
• Editing

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Context

• Immediate context (i.e. where the video has
  actually been made, e.g. in a studio, outside)
• Virtual context (i.e. where the video has been
  placed on the Internet website, you tube,
  social media etc.)

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Listeners

• Who is the speaker addressing?
• someone off camera but present at the recording?
• the outside world
• a particular person (in the outside world)
• users of the website in general (in the outside
  world)

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Media talk

• Primarily interested in building a social
  relationship
• Interactivity
• Perfomativity
• Liveliness
• Para-social interaction
• Part of the conversationalisation of public
  discourse?

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Interactivity

• The style of speech used in media talk is
  designed to produce active, participating
  listeners even though listeners are not present,
  media speech acts as if they were
• You need to establish the participation
  framework (who speakers and listeners are and
  whether participating or not)

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Performativity

• There is an overhearing audience (the audience
  sitting at home)
• There is pressure on media talkers to perform to
  the overhearing audience
• It is difficult to interact with someone who is
  not present
• Media talk has to do a performance of
  friendliness

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Liveliness

• Media talk has to seem spontaneous even though
  many programmes are recorded
• so speakers have to be extra-lively (the rhetoric
  of liveness without being live)

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Para-social interaction

• You need to assess whether or not speakers are
  using a script (but pretending not to in order to
  seem spontaneous)
• Do speakers asjust their response to the supposed
  response of the audience and does the audience
  anticipate this?

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• Mediated relationships with absent others
• Intimacy at a distance
• What kind of group identity does this produce in
  people who are sharing the events
• What is the imagined community of people
  watching things on TV or using the Internet

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Other characteristics of media talk

• Sympathetic circularity an exaggeratedly
  conversational style used in media talk to
  involvelisteners at home with studio guests
• Media professionals are good at using
  conversational genres in an institutional
  framework

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News talk

• News reports are a form of narrative.
• Remember Labovs paradox and the two extremes of
  
• interest
  credibility
• You need to see where a news report
• stands on this line by looking at the way
• the story is presented and told

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Formats of news talk

• News presenter(s) in the studio
• News reporters in the studio or on the spot?
• Monologue report or dialogue?
• Studio-reporter interviews
• (live or recorded?)
• How is the interview conducted? In studio?
  Two-way satellite links?

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Presenter-reporter interaction

• Monologue report?
• Interview by presenter?
• Question-answer routine
• Is reporters speech prepared, ready by autocue?
• Does reporter establish credibility?
• Does the reporter speculate?
• Report or narrative reconstruction?
• Use table 3.1

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Interaction in news studio

• Analyse the interaction between news presenters
  e.g. news as gossip between presenters shared
  knowledge and mutual affiliation
• Analyse interaction between presenter and expert
  how does expert establish credibility?