The production of ‘defectiveness’ as a linguistic resource in broadcast evangelical discourse: A discursive psychology approach  

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Xanthopoulou, Penny

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse and Society (Full Text) vol. 21 no. 5 (Sep. 2010), page 675-691.
Topik: broadcast evangelical discourse; defectiveness; discursive psychology; institutional discourse
Fulltext: 2010.21.675-691.pdf (384.8KB)

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This article explores the social construction of the notion of efectiveness in broadcast evangelica discourse. The data come from the God TV (USA) and the flagship TV channel God Channel (UK). The analysis focuses on the action-orientated and rhetorical business (Potter, 1996) accomplished by employing descriptions and displays of defectiveness. Specifically, this article investigates how notions of a general ‘human’ and direct ‘personal’ defectiveness are negotiated, and for what reasons, in this particular Christian talk. The focus here is on how and what actions people perform with their talk in these environments, when doing interactional work and presenting specific versions of arguments, stories etc. (Edwards, 2005).

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