Chapter 5
Playing one’s part within a medial procedure
A talk show host’s role-specific interaction
The study at hand is part of a research project
dedicated to the topic management in a political talk show. Here,
the focus is on the talk show host’s activities resulting from her
role-specific tasks within the show. The detailed analysis is
dedicated to her presentations of pre-produced film clips as part of
the show. Data samples are taken from a corpus of 19 editions of the
German Anne Will show. The video samples and
corresponding transcripts have been closely analysed with special
regard to sequential organisation and the concurrence of verbal and
non-verbal expressions. The observed interactions reflect their
medial context, which, reciprocally, is also the result of the
participants’ practices: It is only within the medial context of a
political TV discussion that film clips need to be introduced during
the ongoing conversation and, at the same time, can be utilized to
moderate between distinct participant groups.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The talk show as a communicative practice and a medial
procedure
- 3.The specific role of the host
- 4.A role-specific task: Introducing a film clip
- 4.1Background information
- 4.2Contradiction
- 4.3Topic adjustment
- 5.Summary and conclusion
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Notes
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References
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