Mediated Discourse As Social Interaction: A Study of News Discourse

Part 1 The primacy of social interaction in discourse: mediated action as social practice. Part 2 Sites of engagement: maxims of stance - social practices in the interactive construction of business telephone calls acts of reading and watching - observation as social interaction news-stands, handbills, photographs and living rooms as stages for the construction of person. Interlude - mediated transactions. Part 4 The discursive construction of the person in the news media: television journalists newspaper journalists newsmakers in newspaper and television. Part 4 Media studies and social interaction: interdiscursivity and identity a social interactional perspective on ethnographic studies of media.