Publications

Publication details [#26312]

McIlvenny, Paul. 1996. Heckling in Hyde Park: verbal audience participation in popular public discourse. Language in Society 25 (1) : 27–60.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

audience response | popular culture | public speech

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study uses a conversation analytic approach to examine and describe the timing, format and sequential organization of (video-recorded) heckling, performed at London's Speaker's Corner.