The Discursive Construction of the Public and the Prívate Spheres in Media Debates: The Case of Televisión Talk Shows
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Within the framework of an interactionnist perspective on discourse analy sis, this paper deals with the discursive construction of the public and prívate spheres in media debates. Focusing on the French media, one observes a current trend to mix up the construction of the public and the prívate spheres in the practice of media information and more generally a shift from civic information to puré spectacle. This state of affairs is particularly manifest in debates. We first discuss this issue and then define the discursive properties of three types of debates. One of these: the statement's talk show debate manifests best the blurring of boundaries between public and prívate domains. Finally, we analyze the discursive dimensión of an excerpt of a well-known French program ("C'est mon choix": FR3 channel), which is representative of this genre. Our analysis focuses on the discursive performance of the hostess as it is essential to understand what is at stake with media debates.
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