Makri-Tsilipakou2004

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Makri-Tsilipakou2004
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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