Greg Myers

Matters of Opinion

Talking about Public Issues

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an interesting insight into 'public opinion' as reported in the media.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780521075794
• ISBN-10: 0521075793
• Artikelnr.: 24424213

Autorenporträt

Greg Myers is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, University of Lancaster.

Inhaltsangabe

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.