Confrontation Talk: Arguments, Asymmetries, and Power on Talk Radio

by Ian Hutchby

Using conversation analysis to explore the nature of argument, asymmetry, and power on talk radio, this book focuses on the interplay between the structures of talk in interaction and the structures of participation on talk radio. In the process, it demonstrates how conversation analysis may be used to account for power as a feature of institutional discourse.

To address a number of key issues in the study of institutional communication and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805817972
• ISBN13: 9780805817973
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"