Belligerent Broadcasting: Synthetic argument in broadcast talk 2016008767, 9781472425928, 9781315569017

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1 A polite introduction
Broadcasting and the imperative to be sociable
What are the characteristics of belligerent broadcasting?
The belligerent broadcaster and the audience
The study of angry TV
Cultural setting
Civility and its discontents
What is politeness?
The social setting and context for interaction: argumentation
A brief history of the study of argumentation
Contemporary approaches to argumentation: the role of the media personality
Difference and dialogicality
‘Common ground’
Book structure
Conclusion
2 Pugnacious political media talk
Politics and conflict
The accountability interview and the shift to ‘confrotainment’
Holding the position in Frankly Speaking
Conclusion
3 Truculent talk television
Defining the talk show
‘Celebrity culture’ and the commodification of the personality
The celebrity chat show and the harnessing of belligerence
The turn to ‘the public’
Argument and the popular public
Tough love: anger in the therapeutic talk show
Conclusion
4 Bellicose business
Business broadcasting and the rise of the entrepreneur as performer
Analysing business belligerence
Business makeover shows: Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares and the performance of authority
Business game shows: I wanna be belligerent like you
Conclusions
5 Chastening changes: Makeover TV
Presenters as head girls
A woman’s best friend
The decline of aggressive consumption
Every woman’s best friend
Banter and bullying
Conclusions
6 Banter as playful sociability
Banter as playful belligerence
Anti-authoritarianism as entertainment
Banter as competition
Post-production banter
Conclusions
7 Mediated fury: Talk radio and its publics
The arrangements of talk radio
Extending a welcome: managing belligerence
The agonistic audience in political talkback
Conclusion
8 Some courteous conclusions
Belligerence matters
Belligerence in the market
The anger of the righteous
Belligerence and power
References
Index