Publications

Publication details [#56578]

Augoustinos, Martha and Scott Hanson-Easey. 2012. Narratives from the neighbourhood: The discursive construction of integration problems in talkback radio. Journal of Sociolinguistics 16 (1) : 28–55.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acculturation | discourse strategy | image | immigrant | radio talk

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This paper argues that narrative devices, deployed in talkback ‘phone-in’ calls to a local Adelaide radio station, exposing refugee integration problems, encourage socio-political policies that entail grave, negative results for Sudanese refugees.