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Publication details [#48512]

Guillot, Marie-Noëlle. 2008. Freedoms and constraints in semi-institutional television discussions: The case of mixed format panel discussions. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (2) : 179–204.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

constraints on variability | genre | participant | television debate

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Building on interactional discourse and conversation analysis, this paper considers the fact that formats of televised panel debates are not necessarily strictly adhered to, providing the example of a TV discussion in French, started as a panel discussion, but bursting out of its format.