The reinforcement of tellability in Greek television eyewitnessing

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ID11267402
AuthorsMarianthi Makri-Tsilipakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Marianthi Makri‐tsilipakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume26
Issue6
Pages841-859
Publication date2004-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedia Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0163443704047029
OpenAlexW2078152169
LanguageEN
References cited24

Greek television news broadcasts routinely incorporate large chunks of livetransmissions, consisting of on-the-scene reporters interviewing eyewitnesses to emerging news, which are often trivial but always audience-involving. Although the tellabilityof such stories seems to be a priori warranted, tellers regularly employ a number of reinforcing strategies which construct their accounts as newsworthy and credible. Some of these strategies are of the usual narrativekind; others seem to be television-oriented - often mixing mundanewith institutional, creating an intermediatetype of talk - seldom failing, however, to display the speaker’s cultural competence and medium-awareness in terms of the overall structural design and verbal shape of their contributions

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