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Packaging social worlds: Micro- and macro-social replication in mass-mediated discourse
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| Title: | Packaging social worlds: Micro- and macro-social replication in mass-mediated discourse |
| Author(s): | Hallett, Jill |
| Subject(s): | sociolinguistics, voicing, footing, discourse analysis |
| Abstract: | This paper provides an analysis of heteroglossic mass-mediated discourse for a National Public Radio (NPR) segment. Two Chicago teenagers covered the story of five-year-old Eric Morse, who was pushed to his death from a fourteenth-story housing project window. On a micro-discursive level, each voice represented in this segment is an amalgamated blend of lived experiences with respect to this tragedy and the events surrounding it, as well as participation in speech chains of mass-communicative, historical, and segmental natures. While presented as a documentary examining a major news event in depth through "authentic" correspondents, this segment is edited and packaged to appeal to a certain demographic. Macrosociological constructs of race, class, and social position are reflected in these highly localized discourses as these experiences are edited and "packaged" for a specific listening audience. |
| Issue Date: | 2009 |
| Citation Info: | Studies in the Linguistic Sciences: Illinois Working Papers 2009: 58-80 |
| Genre: | Article |
| Type: | Text |
| Language: | English |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/13860 |
| ISSN: | 0049-2388 |
| Publication Status: | published or submitted for publication |
| Peer Reviewed: | is peer reviewed |
| Date Available in IDEALS: | 2009-10-05 |
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