Matters of opinion : talking about public issues / Greg Myers.

By:

Myers, Greg, 1954-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 19.Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 258 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0511230427
9780511230424
0511231199
9780511231193
0511228791
9780511228797
0511229631
9780511229633
9780511486708
0511486707
9780521793124
0521793122
1107158702
9781107158702
1280702869
9781280702860
0511331525
9780511331527
9780521075794
0521075793

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Matters of opinion.DDC classification:

302.23 22

LOC classification:

P96.P83 M94 2004eb

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Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Transcription conventions; Focus-group data; Chapter 1 Paradoxes of opinion; Chapter 2 A tool kit for analysing group discussions; Chapter 3 Forums for opinion: 'What is it that's going on here?'; Chapter 4 Institutions of opinion: voice of the people?; Chapter 5 Topics in interaction: 'Why that now?'; Chapter 6 Agreeing and disagreeing: maintaining sociable argument; Chapter 7 Representing speech: other voices, other places; Chapter 8 Questioning expertise: Who says?

Summary: Matters of Opinion offers an interesting new insight into 'public opinion' as reported in the media. Drawing on conversations from focus groups, phone-ins and broadcast interviews, Greg Myers asks where these opinions actually come from, and how they have their effects, and what it means to participate in public life.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Matters of Opinion offers an interesting new insight into 'public opinion' as reported in the media. Drawing on conversations from focus groups, phone-ins and broadcast interviews, Greg Myers asks where these opinions actually come from, and how they have their effects, and what it means to participate in public life.