Adam Jaworski
Biographic Data
| ID | 409193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Jaworski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Jaworski |
| SIGNATURE | JAWORSKI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9194-5725 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 610 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Disrupting and (re)making the city: Public art and mental health activism in Hong Kong
In this paper, we examine a Hong Kong mental health campaign which invited members of the public to walk, hike, or run along Hong Kong Island’s coastline and engage with the urban and natural environment as well as ten specially placed artworks. Through a social semiotic and multimodal metaphor analysis, we explore how these artworks convey parrhesia , or “speaking fearlessly”, by foregrounding mental health experiences that are often marginalize…
Regrounding work in elite discourse: Mediatizing and amplifying entitlement
This paper considers the interplay of small-scale pragmatic actions and large-scale discursive formations; specifically, we examine frame-shifting and keying in the globally syndicated BBC television show Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby . Focusing on the fourth season of Amazing Hotels , which broadcast in 2021, we document how work and workers are staged for entertainment as quintessential examples of a non-serious frame that Goffman calle…
Hollywood: The political economy and global citation of an emblematic language object
The HOLLYWOOD sign is arguably the world's most famous language object. Emblematic of prestige and cultural capital, the sign can be found not just in Los Angeles, but in citations all over the world. Beginning with the history of its valorization, HOLLYWOOD is shown to emanate symbolic value through a set of enregistered semiotic features. Drawing upon a set of globally sourced citations of HOLLYWOOD, the circulation and stratified bundling of s…
Des relations éphémères. Une sociolinguistique du tourisme
Dans cet article, nous présentons une analyse de quatre types d'échanges linguistiques différents dans le domaine du tourisme. Ce faisant, nous démontrons que l'emprunt, l'appropriation et la réévaluation de la langue/des langues sont une caractéristique centrale des interactions entre hôtes et touristes. Ensemble, ces échanges linguistiques mettent en évidence la base sociolinguistique des relations éphémères ou transitoires du tourisme. À trave…
Tourism tensions and sociolinguistic change
The articles in the present special issue, Tourism spaces at the nexus of language and materiality , are commented on through the lens of “sociolinguistic change” (Coupland 2014), and four pairs of relations: modernity and tradition ; de- and re-centering of languages ; elite and mass tourism ; profit and prejudice . Brief concluding remarks touch on the relationship between the symbolic and material aspects of language
Multimodal writing: The avant-garde assemblage and other minimal texts
Taking multilingual, minimal urban texts as objects of its analysis, this paper suggests that language(s) (writing) need(s) to be examined as part of multimodal ensembles (Kress, G., & van Leeuwen, T. (2001). Multimodal discourse: The modes and media of contemporary communication. Arnold). I examine and draw parallels between greeting cards, advertisements, corporate signage and developments in twentieth century avant-garde art, when artists inco…
Wordswewear: Mobile texts, expressive persons, and conviviality in urban spaces
In this programmatic paper, we approach #wordswewear, referring to the wide range of linguistic inscriptions on clothing and accessories, as part of the embodied, mobile semiotic landscape of the city. Our main objective is to reflect on (1) the conditions that gave rise to the apparent pervasiveness of #wordswewear in urban spaces, and (2) the extent to which they constitute a form of public, urban discourse. Drawing on an emergent collection of…
Introducing writing (in) the city
This introductory paper offers a framing of writing (in) the city as a way of making and knowing cities. We link individual contributions in this collection to earlier research that has examined displayed discourse in urban spaces or considered writing as a metaphor for studying cities
X
The grapheme and symbol x has been documented as relatively indeterminate and polysemic (e.g. Gale, 2015 ). Yet, various typographic, orthographic and other design choices make it particularly salient in the contemporary semiotic landscape. The paper starts by outlining briefly the history of the changing uses and associations of x in different areas of social life. This is followed by discussion of the typographic and orthographic salience of x …
Commentary: Intersectionality as family ideology and (banal) nationalism
Word-things and Thing-words: The Transmodal Production of Privilege and Status
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Mediatizing the “super-rich,” normalizing privilege
The argument we make here is a straightforward one: constant news-media coverage of the excessive lifestyles and consumption patterns of the so called “super-rich” normalize their extreme privilege, while obfuscating the privilege of many others. We examine a series of typical news stories (“print” and “broadcast”) together with examples of popular books to show how the mediatization of the “super-rich” is ambivalently organized through a mixture…
Introducing elite discourse: The rhetorics of status, privilege, and power
This introductory paper offers a framing of elite discourse as the way elites and/or eliteness are depicted in language and communication, and the way language and communication are deployed for two elitist ends: the production of status and the maintenance of privilege/power. We sketch three orienting principles which have structured our special issue – targeting elitism, centring discourse and critical reflexivity – before presenting an overvie…
The discursive production and maintenance of class privilege: Permeable geographies, slippery rhetorics
The underlying premise of this article is that the social meanings and cultural entanglements of the so-called super-rich or 1% reach far beyond any specific people or place. To be sure, the tightly managed, tailored spaces of super-elites are often less exclusive than first meets the eye, and the markers of super-elite status circulate in quite informal, banal ways. Drawing on a combination of textual and fieldwork data, we map three interlockin…
Epilogue: The Moiré Effect and the Art of Assemblage
Economic activity has always fostered mobility and encounters with diversity. In his wide-ranging history of the Mediterranean in the sixteenth century, Braudel notes that the cities of the Mediter
Visual silence and non-normative sexualities
Marginalization of people in non-hegemonic / non-normative gender roles and sexualities is often discussed in terms of their ‘silencing’. Besides, as silence tends to occupy liminal stages of communication and interaction, it is well suited to indexing marginalized subjectivities. This paper argues that in the context of artistic performance, that is when silence is displayed rather than imposed, silence can be re-valued as affirming and liberati…
Itineraries of protest signage: Semiotic landscape and the mythologizing of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
The pro-democracy occupation of three commercial and retail areas in Hong Kong that lasted over two months in the fall of 2014 – known as the Umbrella Movement – created a myth of Utopia (Barthes 1984 [1954]). In this paper, we track the itineraries (Scollon 2008) and resemiotizations (Iedema 2003) of the protest signage to show how they mythologized the Movement by “branding space”, “regulating and disciplining actions”, and “unifying the voice …
Word cities and language objects: ‘Love’ sculptures and signs as shifters
The focus of this paper is on language objects in contemporary ‘word cities’, or urban landscapes, shaped by art and consumer culture. I define ‘language objects’ as two- or three-dimensional pieces of writing (e.g. needlework samplers, fridge magnets, wooden or metal sculptures, etc.) that do not serve any apparent informational or utilitarian purpose, i.e. they are not ‘attached’ to or displayed on any objects with identifiable practical functi…
Typographic landscaping: Creativity, ideology, movement
Origins and
Globalese: A New Visual-Linguistic Register
Several decades of media representation and cultural consumption have led to the creation of a collective geographical imagination of the world as a place. This paper argues that in contemporary semiotic landscapes a new, translingual, middle-brow register, called here globalese, has emerged and that it indexes spaces as "global." It combines new letterforms, punctuation marks, diacritics, and tittles in ways that create novel, foreignized, visua…
Metrolingual art: Multilingualism and heteroglossia
Metrolingualism can be defined as the contemporary practice of creative uses, or mixing, of different linguistic codes in predominantly urban contexts, transcending established social, cultural, political and historical boundaries, identities and ideologies (Otsuiji & Pennycook, 2010). The present paper examines how this term can be applied to theorizing instances of contemporary text art that combine two or more languages, or that transform know…
Mobile language in mobile places
Common methodological and conceptual threads are discussed with reference to the approaches adopted in the four papers of this special issue: Goffman’s frame analysis, Bakhtin’s chronotopes, Blommaert’s spatialization of language, and the Scollons’ nexus analysis. The commentary concludes with brief reflections on ‘mobile’ places
Introduction: Sociolinguistics and tourism - mobilities, markets, multilingualism
In the introduction to this special issue on Sociolinguistics and Tourism, we focus on language in tourism as an important window into contemporary forms of economic, political, and social change. Our aim is twofold: (1) to establish and extend 'sociolinguistics and tourism' as another social and applied domain of sociolinguistic research; and (2) to use tourism as a lens for a broader discussion of the sociolinguistics of late modernity. To this…
Two hundred ninety-four: Remediation and multimodal performance in tourist placemaking
We offer here a multimodal discourse analysis of a range of verbal (writing and speech), nonverbal (movement and gesture) and technological (photography and video) resources used by tourists at the Leaning Tower of Pisa. In doing so, we pin-point the recycling and layering of mediatized representations (e.g. guidebooks and official brochures), mediated actions (e.g. climbing the Tower or posing in front of it), and remediated practices (e.g. post…
Linguistic Landscapes on Postcards: Tourist Mediation and the Sociolinguistic Communities of Contact
Alongside ‘iconic’ sights such as buildings, monuments, artworks, modes of transport, and so on, linguistic landscape is a prime semiotic resources for the tourist consumption of place. Apart from their referential function (naming or indexing places, buildings, institutions, products, etc.), written signs work as symbolic resources to create a ‘sense of place’ and as performative displays of identity for their producers and consumers. This paper…
The alchemy of the upwardly mobile: Symbolic capital and the stylization of elites in frequent-flyer programmes
From a sample of 51 major international airlines, we offer a critical discourse analysis of so-called loyalty or frequent-flyer programmes and their related business-class services. As examples of cultural capital par excellence, these seemingly innocuous discursive formations act as significant agents of, and channels for, globalist relations of power in the context of international travel and tourism. The principal logic of frequent-flyer progr…
Introducing elite discourse: The rhetorics of status, privilege, and power
This introductory paper offers a framing of elite discourse as the way elites and/or eliteness are depicted in language and communication, and the way language and communication are deployed for two elitist ends: the production of status and the maintenance of privilege/power. We sketch three orienting principles which have structured our special issue – targeting elitism, centring discourse and critical reflexivity – before presenting an overvie…
Introduction: Sociolinguistics and tourism - mobilities, markets, multilingualism
In the introduction to this special issue on Sociolinguistics and Tourism, we focus on language in tourism as an important window into contemporary forms of economic, political, and social change. Our aim is twofold: (1) to establish and extend 'sociolinguistics and tourism' as another social and applied domain of sociolinguistic research; and (2) to use tourism as a lens for a broader discussion of the sociolinguistics of late modernity. To this…
Elite mobilities: The semiotic landscapes of luxury and privilege
Tourism is immensely powerful in (re)organising large-scale inequalities and privileges. In the rapid expansion of 'luxury tourism' we find a wing of this truly global culture industry openly committed to the symbolic production of elite status, distinction and privilege. Our visual essay here offers a series of multimodal, multi-voiced statements arising from a research project that explores and critiques the lavish semiotic economies and strict…
We Beat ’em’: Nationalism and the Hegemony of Homogeneity in the British Press Reportage of Germany versus England during Euro 2000
This article analyses the press reportage (written texts and visual images) of the football game between Germany and England during Euro 2000. We examine how the press construct the nation as a homogeneous collective within which the (implied) reader is positioned as belonging. The article also examines the press coverage of civic disturbances involving England supporters. We demonstrate how the ‘football hooligans’ undergo ‘othering’ in the pres…
Othering in gossip: You Go Out You Have a Laugh and You Can Pull Yeah Okay but Like
It has been claimed that gossip allows participants to negotiate aspects of group membership, and the inclusion and exclusion of others, by working out shared values. This article examines instances of gossipy storytelling among young friends during which participants negotiate self- and other-identities in particular ways. Participants are found to share judgments not only about others' behavior but also about their own behavior through particul…
Social roles and negotiation of status in host-tourist interaction: A view from British television holiday programmes
Although folk discourses frequently emphasise such raison d'être benefits of tourism as broadening one's horizons through knowing foreign people(s) and cultures, most critical studies of tourism stress tourists' relative illiteracy with regard to the 'reading' of the local. This paper is based on extracts from two British holiday programme series, BBC's Holiday 2000/1 and ITV's Wish You Were Here?, in which the presenters engage in some form of v…
Communicating a global reach: Inflight magazines as a globalizing genre in tourism
Like most multinational or international corporations, marketing for airlines hinges on careful strategies of differentiation and promotion; an increasingly important part of the way this is achieved is for airlines to position themselves as 'global' and to promise their passengers the kudos of being global citizens and travellers. It is in this way that globalization can be seen to be not about just economic reordering, but also strategic, comme…
Tourism discourse: Languages and banal globalization
Described as the "one of the greatest population movements of all time, " tourism is firmly established as one of the world's largest international trades.And it is not just people who are on tour; language too is on the move.In this paper we examine some of the ways that our research has shown language commonly being taken up in tourism's search for exoticity and authenticity.Specifically, we present a series of different touristic genres (broad…
The New Sociolinguistics Reader
Introduction: Social Worlds through Language N. Coupland and A. Jaworski.- PART I: LANGUAGE VARIATION.- Editors' Introduction to Part I.- Dialect in Society W.Wolfram.- The Social Stratification of (r) in New York City Department Stores W.Labov.- The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich P.Trudgill.- The Transmission Problem in Linguistic Change W. Labov.- Network Structure and Linguistic Change J.Milroy and L.Milroy.- Demythologising Soci…
Certainty and speculation in news reporting of the future: The execution of Timothy McVeigh
This article explores the temporal organization and manipulation of time in the production and presentation of news reports. Time is often cited as one of the most central organizing concepts of news production; indeed one of the major features of news reporting is the breaking of stories and the reporting of events `as they happen'. However, whilst much emphasis is placed upon time within media production, much of this pertains to the reporting …
Globalese: A New Visual-Linguistic Register
Several decades of media representation and cultural consumption have led to the creation of a collective geographical imagination of the world as a place. This paper argues that in contemporary semiotic landscapes a new, translingual, middle-brow register, called here globalese, has emerged and that it indexes spaces as "global." It combines new letterforms, punctuation marks, diacritics, and tittles in ways that create novel, foreignized, visua…
Two hundred ninety-four: Remediation and multimodal performance in tourist placemaking
We offer here a multimodal discourse analysis of a range of verbal (writing and speech), nonverbal (movement and gesture) and technological (photography and video) resources used by tourists at the Leaning Tower of Pisa. In doing so, we pin-point the recycling and layering of mediatized representations (e.g. guidebooks and official brochures), mediated actions (e.g. climbing the Tower or posing in front of it), and remediated practices (e.g. post…
Mediatizing the “super-rich,” normalizing privilege
The argument we make here is a straightforward one: constant news-media coverage of the excessive lifestyles and consumption patterns of the so called “super-rich” normalize their extreme privilege, while obfuscating the privilege of many others. We examine a series of typical news stories (“print” and “broadcast”) together with examples of popular books to show how the mediatization of the “super-rich” is ambivalently organized through a mixture…
Itineraries of protest signage: Semiotic landscape and the mythologizing of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
The pro-democracy occupation of three commercial and retail areas in Hong Kong that lasted over two months in the fall of 2014 – known as the Umbrella Movement – created a myth of Utopia (Barthes 1984 [1954]). In this paper, we track the itineraries (Scollon 2008) and resemiotizations (Iedema 2003) of the protest signage to show how they mythologized the Movement by “branding space”, “regulating and disciplining actions”, and “unifying the voice …
The discursive production and maintenance of class privilege: Permeable geographies, slippery rhetorics
The underlying premise of this article is that the social meanings and cultural entanglements of the so-called super-rich or 1% reach far beyond any specific people or place. To be sure, the tightly managed, tailored spaces of super-elites are often less exclusive than first meets the eye, and the markers of super-elite status circulate in quite informal, banal ways. Drawing on a combination of textual and fieldwork data, we map three interlockin…
Typographic landscaping: Creativity, ideology, movement
Origins and
The discourses of war photography: Photojournalistic representations of the Palestinian-Israeli war
Photography has a long history of (de-)legitimation of wars. In this paper we examine the visual rhetoric of two newspapers, the British Guardian and the Polish Gazeta Wyborcza in their representation of the Palestinian-Israeli war in October 2000. Although both newspapers have access to the same (agency) photographs, their images differ. Both papers show the Palestinians to be the main victims of the war. However, Gazeta Wyborcza depicts the Pal…
This is not an empty compliment!” Polish compliments and the expression of solidarity 1
The most commonly recognized function of American English compliments and compliment responses is the expression and maintenance of solidarity between interlocutors. An analysis of Polish compliments and compliment responses collected in natural settings leads to the adoption of a distinction between procedural and relational solidarity. It is argued that many Polish compliments which are used in a manipulative or instrumental way are only proced…
Radio Leaks: Presenting and Contesting Leaks in Radio News Broadcasts
This paper analyzes the discursive construction and contestation of ‘leaked’ stories in news broadcast programmes. Drawing on a sample of BBC Radio 4 news programmes recorded between May and June 2000, we analyze four items of news presented as leaks about upcoming events. We suggest that these examples highlight the leaking of information as a valuable newsworthy commodity in that it not only allows news organizations to report what is going to …
Vocative Address Forms and Ideological Legitimization in Political Debates
In this article we examine the role of vocative forms of address in shaping the political space in public/political discourse. We are particularly interested in strategic uses of forms of address by participants in political debates in order to gain legitimacy for their ideologies. Our data come from four formal television debates between Lech Wałęsa, the former Solidarity trade union leader and president of Poland, and two other Polish politicia…
Self‐reports on silence as a face‐saving strategy by people with hearing impairment
The main assumption in this paper is that silence, defined here as avoidance or termination of talk in problematic and face‐threatening situations, is used by hard‐of‐hearing people as a face‐saving strategy in communication with hearing people. One hundred hearing‐impaired people were asked to list any situations in which they refrain from conversation due to embarrassment. The situations which were mentioned by the subjects can be summarized as…
Introducing writing (in) the city
This introductory paper offers a framing of writing (in) the city as a way of making and knowing cities. We link individual contributions in this collection to earlier research that has examined displayed discourse in urban spaces or considered writing as a metaphor for studying cities
Tracing Place, Locating Self: Embodiment and Remediation In/Of Tourist Spaces
Tourists’ encounters with/in places, while powerfully represented and organized by visual imagery, are also experienced through material exchange, social interaction and physical movement. We offer a visual ethnography of the embodied, re/mediating inter/actions of tourists in a range of different sites. Our images are organized into five compositional themes or narratives: (1) self-locational rituals and spectacles; (2) tactile engagements with …
Transgression and Intimacy in Recreational Talk Narratives
Potentially transgressive or "unsafe" narrative themes offer a means of achieving intimacy among speakers. We examine 3 extracts from leisure-time conversations among different groups of young friends, where stories are told on topics that are conventionally considered "rude" or risqueacute-the defiling of food, vomiting, and watching animals having sex. The analysis shows how speakers in various ways negotiate their own local orientations to the…
On gender and sex in Polish
The acquisition and perception of formulaic language and foreign language teaching
The power of silence: Social and Pragmatic Perspectives
How to silence a minority: The Case of Women
The Power of Silence: Social and Pragmatic Perspectives
Silence and the Study of Communication Silence and Speech The Pragmatics of Silence The Politics of Silence and the Silence of Politics The Extensions of Silence Conclusion
This is not an empty compliment!” Polish compliments and the expression of solidarity 1
The most commonly recognized function of American English compliments and compliment responses is the expression and maintenance of solidarity between interlocutors. An analysis of Polish compliments and compliment responses collected in natural settings leads to the adoption of a distinction between procedural and relational solidarity. It is argued that many Polish compliments which are used in a manipulative or instrumental way are only proced…
Sociolinguistics
In the first volume of this kind for years, the editors have assembled a definitive view of the discipline bringing together much original work in sociolinguistics, ranging from fundamental theoretica
The Linguistic Construction of Reality in the Black Book of Polish Censorship
The Black Book of Polish Censorship is an important document of censorial practices in Poland in the 1970s. It is a collection of censoring regulations which worked preventively to silence or distort those aspects of Polish life which were uncomfortable for the communist establishment. Although the role of censorship in totalitarian regimes is well known, the linguistic mechanisms by which (a) information flow was controlled and (b) preferred con…
Relevance, accommodation and conversation: Modeling the social dimension of communication
This paper addresses the issue of the role of the social component in a theory of communication. In the first, theoretical part of the paper, we examine what constitutes an adequate social, or sociolinguistic, basis for modeling communication. We ask whether there may be radically different orientations to social assumptions about communication by different theorists, and we review several current frameworks: relevance theory, conversation analys…
The last Romantic hero: Lech Wałęsa’s image-building in TV presidential debates
In this paper we analyze the strategies of Lech Walesa's image-building as a powerful leader of the nation. We argue that Walesa realizes three different versions of his leadership which are founded on the following defining criteria: his anti-Communism, heroism and working-class background. The paper is based upon the transcripts of two 1995 television presidential debates between Walesa and his counter candidate, Aleksander Kwaśniewski. Followi…
Self‐reports on silence as a face‐saving strategy by people with hearing impairment
The main assumption in this paper is that silence, defined here as avoidance or termination of talk in problematic and face‐threatening situations, is used by hard‐of‐hearing people as a face‐saving strategy in communication with hearing people. One hundred hearing‐impaired people were asked to list any situations in which they refrain from conversation due to embarrassment. The situations which were mentioned by the subjects can be summarized as…
Unilateral Norm Breaking in a Presidential Debate: Lech Walesa Versus Aleksander Kwasniewski
This study analyzes the 1995 television presidential debate between Lech Wałȩsa and Aleksander Kwaśniewski. We show that the debate's institutional nature was subverted by the former candidate's use of an informal register characterized by jocular tenor, use of marked forms of address, and disparaging metapragmatic comments. Wałȩsa's casual style appeared to the other participants in the debate (his opponent, the journalists in the studio, the me…
Vocative Address Forms and Ideological Legitimization in Political Debates
In this article we examine the role of vocative forms of address in shaping the political space in public/political discourse. We are particularly interested in strategic uses of forms of address by participants in political debates in order to gain legitimacy for their ideologies. Our data come from four formal television debates between Lech Wałęsa, the former Solidarity trade union leader and president of Poland, and two other Polish politicia…
Strategies of silence: Omission and ambiguity in the Black Book of Polish Censorship
The verbal construction of non-verbal behaviour: British press reports of President Clinton's grand jury testimony video
On Monday 21 September 1998, the videotapes of president Clinton's 17 August testimony to the grand jury in the Clinton—Lewinsky affair were released to the public. In this article we analyse reports of the event in eight British national newspapers with a special interest in how Clinton's nonverbal behaviour (NVB) in the grand jury testimony is presented, evaluated and used to evaluate his overall `performance' and political persona. Overall, we…
Political silencing: A view from Laurie Anderson’s performance art
The Uses and Representations of Local Languages in Tourist Destinations: A View from British TV Holiday Programmes
This paper analyses instances of the use and representation of local languages (other than English) in British TV holiday shows. Although most hosts/locals featured in the holiday programmes use English to communicate with the travelling journalists, regardless of the official status of English in their territories, it is not uncommon for the presenters to initiate interaction with the locals in their native language, to quote 'foreign' language …
Representations of Hosts in Travel Writing: The Guardian Travel Section
In this paper, we examine representations of hosts to tourist destinations covered in journalistic travel reports published in the Travel Section of the Saturday edition of the British broadsheet newspaper The Guardian in 1997. Methodologically, the paper is anchored within the constructionist view of discourse, i.e. we assume that in the linguistic representation of people, places, or events, discursive choices not only describe the reality but …
We beat 'em: Nationalism and the hegemony of homogeneity in the British press reportage of Germany versus England during Euro 2000
We Beat ’em’: Nationalism and the Hegemony of Homogeneity in the British Press Reportage of Germany versus England during Euro 2000
This article analyses the press reportage (written texts and visual images) of the football game between Germany and England during Euro 2000. We examine how the press construct the nation as a homogeneous collective within which the (implied) reader is positioned as belonging. The article also examines the press coverage of civic disturbances involving England supporters. We demonstrate how the ‘football hooligans’ undergo ‘othering’ in the pres…
We Beat 'em: Nationalism and the Hegemony of Homogeneity in the British Press Reportage of Germany Versus England During Euro 2000
Transgression and Intimacy in Recreational Talk Narratives
Potentially transgressive or "unsafe" narrative themes offer a means of achieving intimacy among speakers. We examine 3 extracts from leisure-time conversations among different groups of young friends, where stories are told on topics that are conventionally considered "rude" or risqueacute-the defiling of food, vomiting, and watching animals having sex. The analysis shows how speakers in various ways negotiate their own local orientations to the…
The discourses of war photography: Photojournalistic representations of the Palestinian-Israeli war
Photography has a long history of (de-)legitimation of wars. In this paper we examine the visual rhetoric of two newspapers, the British Guardian and the Polish Gazeta Wyborcza in their representation of the Palestinian-Israeli war in October 2000. Although both newspapers have access to the same (agency) photographs, their images differ. Both papers show the Palestinians to be the main victims of the war. However, Gazeta Wyborcza depicts the Pal…
Certainty and speculation in news reporting of the future: The execution of Timothy McVeigh
This article explores the temporal organization and manipulation of time in the production and presentation of news reports. Time is often cited as one of the most central organizing concepts of news production; indeed one of the major features of news reporting is the breaking of stories and the reporting of events `as they happen'. However, whilst much emphasis is placed upon time within media production, much of this pertains to the reporting …
Social roles and negotiation of status in host-tourist interaction: A view from British television holiday programmes
Although folk discourses frequently emphasise such raison d'être benefits of tourism as broadening one's horizons through knowing foreign people(s) and cultures, most critical studies of tourism stress tourists' relative illiteracy with regard to the 'reading' of the local. This paper is based on extracts from two British holiday programme series, BBC's Holiday 2000/1 and ITV's Wish You Were Here?, in which the presenters engage in some form of v…
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