Hutchby1999
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Ian Hutchby |
| Title | Rhetorical strategies in audience participation debates on radio and TV |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Participation, Debates, Radio, TV, Audience, Rhetorical Strategies |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Journal | Research on Language and Social Interaction |
| Volume | 32 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 243–267 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1207/S15327973RL320302 |
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Abstract
In this article I analyze the talk of lay contributors in TV and radio variants of audience participation shows. Lay contributors use their initial occupancy of the floor to produce turns in which they take up positions, or argue with others’ positions, on an issue. I explore some key rhetorical devices and strategies (understood as techniques of “artifice or finesse”) used by lay contributors in making their cases. I discuss the ways in which a particular set of rhetorical forms functions as a format for achieving completeness in an extended audience-directed utterance, and thereby help to coordinate lay contributors’ points and the studio audience’s response to what has been said. I show that ordinary citizens speaking in the situations provided by audience participation debate shows can be just as adept at using effective rhetorical devices as are more seasoned public speakers, and moreover, that they are able to do so in improvised, rather than previously written, discourse.
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