Chapter 6. Mornin Caller
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Susanne Mühleisen
Abstract
Phone-in radio programmes are a particular type of participatory media genre in which a host and/or a group of experts interact with the wider public according to certain genre-specific norms and conventions. In Caribbean societies, phone-ins are experiencing ever-increasing popularity as a forum of public discourse and have, to some extent, replaced earlier platforms of public communication. They are important for researching socio-cultural change as they constitute a sensitive barometer of ongoing and changing discourses in society. Phone-ins are therefore particularly interesting for the investigation of discourse on particular public issues. but also for examining conversational interaction between the primary interactants of the format (host and caller) in a specific discourse community.
This chapter will take a particular phone-in programme in Trinidad – The Morning Show (Power 102 FM) with notorious host figure “The Gladiator” – as one particular example to investigate the negotiation of power and authority in openings, closings as well as turn-taking and floor-holding between the interactants. For this end, Conversation Analysis as a method of investigating the organization of talk will be introduced and used. A further issue will be the use of greetings and forms of address in creating a sense of identity and membership in this discourse community.
Abstract
Phone-in radio programmes are a particular type of participatory media genre in which a host and/or a group of experts interact with the wider public according to certain genre-specific norms and conventions. In Caribbean societies, phone-ins are experiencing ever-increasing popularity as a forum of public discourse and have, to some extent, replaced earlier platforms of public communication. They are important for researching socio-cultural change as they constitute a sensitive barometer of ongoing and changing discourses in society. Phone-ins are therefore particularly interesting for the investigation of discourse on particular public issues. but also for examining conversational interaction between the primary interactants of the format (host and caller) in a specific discourse community.
This chapter will take a particular phone-in programme in Trinidad – The Morning Show (Power 102 FM) with notorious host figure “The Gladiator” – as one particular example to investigate the negotiation of power and authority in openings, closings as well as turn-taking and floor-holding between the interactants. For this end, Conversation Analysis as a method of investigating the organization of talk will be introduced and used. A further issue will be the use of greetings and forms of address in creating a sense of identity and membership in this discourse community.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Genre in World Englishes 1
- Chapter 2. Callaloo, stewed manicou and doubles 17
- Chapter 3. Personhood, genealogy and remembrance in death notices and obituaries 43
- Chapter 4. Metathesiophobia, nutty professors and Patois 77
- Chapter 5. Tell me Pastor 105
- Chapter 6. Mornin Caller 133
- Chapter 7. “… allyuh know how to parteeeeeeeeeeee. lawd!” 159
- Chapter 8. Picong and puns, boasting and complaining 183
- References 211
- Index 227
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Genre in World Englishes 1
- Chapter 2. Callaloo, stewed manicou and doubles 17
- Chapter 3. Personhood, genealogy and remembrance in death notices and obituaries 43
- Chapter 4. Metathesiophobia, nutty professors and Patois 77
- Chapter 5. Tell me Pastor 105
- Chapter 6. Mornin Caller 133
- Chapter 7. “… allyuh know how to parteeeeeeeeeeee. lawd!” 159
- Chapter 8. Picong and puns, boasting and complaining 183
- References 211
- Index 227
