Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-175) and index.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Introduction: media discourse -- Media interactions and casual conversation -- Overview of the book -- Chapter 2. A framework for analyzing media discourse -- Introduction -- Towards a model for dyadic communication -- Media interactions, institutionalized generic structure and genre -- Utterance, genres and generic blends -- Towards a working definition of genre for investigating media discourse -- Generic activity, intertextuality and interdiscursivity -- Media discourse as a generic structure with a socially binding forum -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Review of methodologies for analyzing media discourse -- Introduction -- Categorizing media interactions -- Conversation analysis -- Interactions with unknown personae -- Interactions with known personae -- Political interviews -- A corpus-based approach -- Integrating approaches -- Conclusion-- Chapter 4. Managing the discourse -- Introduction -- The discoursal roles and personae of the media presenter -- The media presenter within the participation framework -- Responsibility for common ground -- Institutional power roles and questioning -- Management and control: within and beyond syntax -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Creating and sustaining pseudo-relationships -- Introduction -- Simulating intimacy between strangers in media discourse -- Markers of pseudo-intimacy in media discourse -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6. Creating identities -- Introduction -- Vague categorization as indices of shared knowledge -- Pronouns as indices of audience identity -- Self-reference -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- Introduction -- Media interactions take place within a participation framework -- Media interactions require an eclectic approach -- Media interactions are not homogenous.

"Investigating Media Discourse explores spoken interactions in the media, including chat shows, interviews with celebrities, radio phone-ins and political interviews with leaders such as Tony Blair and George W. Bush, using a corpus of radio and television extracts from around the English-speaking world." "The main theoretical framework used in this work is influenced by Erving Goffman, where the media encounter is viewed as a three-way participation framework involving the broadcaster, interviewee and audience, all of whom shape the interaction. From this viewpoint the interactions are analysed to illustrate how they are managed, how pseudo-relationships are established and maintained, and how 'others' are created." "The book brings together methodologies of discourse analysis, conversation analysis and corpus linguistics so that the media extracts presented are explored from different perspectives in a practical way and numerous insights are provided that could not have been achieved using one method alone."--Jacket.