Makri-Tsilipakou2004
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Makri-Tsilipakou2004 |
Author(s) | Marianthi Makri-Tsilipakou |
Title | The reinforcement of tellability in Greek television eyewitnessing: ‘expert’ and ‘lay’ knowledge, and the right to tell |
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Tag(s) | EMCA, Television, Greek |
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Year | 2004 |
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Journal | Media, Culture & Society |
Volume | 26 |
Number | 6 |
Pages | 841–859 |
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DOI | 10.1177/0163443704047029 |
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Abstract
Greek television news broadcasts routinely incorporate large chunks of livetransmissions, consisting of on-the-scene reporters interviewing eyewitnesses to emerging news, which are often trivial but always audience-involving. Although the tellabilityof such stories seems to be a priori warranted, tellers regularly employ a number of reinforcing strategies which construct their accounts as newsworthy and credible. Some of these strategies are of the usual narrativekind; others seem to be television-oriented - often mixing mundanewith institutional, creating an intermediatetype of talk - seldom failing, however, to display the speaker’s cultural competence and medium-awareness in terms of the overall structural design and verbal shape of their contributions.
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