Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Note on Data and Transcription
Discovering Media Talk
Analysing Media Talk
Television Talk and Audience Participation
Audience Participation Television and Public Discourse
The Spectacle of Confrontation
Radio Talk
Language, Interaction and Power on Talk Radio
Distributed Expertise: The Discourse of Advice-Giving Shows
Broadcasters and Politicians
News Interviews: Journalists and Politicians On the Air
Political Rhetoric and Televised Debate
Postscript
Media Talk and Conversation Analysis: Some Concluding
Glossary
References

About the Author

Ian Hutchby is Professor of Sociology at Brunel University. He is the author of Confrontation Talk (1996), Conversation Analysis (with Robin Wooffitt, 1998) and Conversation and Technology (2001); and editor (with Jo Moran-Ellis) of Children and Social Competence (1998) and Children, Technology and Culture (2001).