Joanna Thornborrow

Currently works at the Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University. Her areas of research are media discourse and social interaction, particularly talk in public participation programmes on radio and television. Although her main interest is in spoken interaction, she has also published work on discourse stylistics and representation in other media texts genres, particularly gender representation and advertising discourse.

Address:

Centre for Language & Communication Research,
Cardiff University,
PO Box 94,
Colum Drive,
CARDIFF CF1 3XB
Tel: 01222 87604

thornborrowj1@cardiff.ac.uk 
 
Relevant Publications:

Language and the Media (in preparation) London: Routledge.

Power Talk: Language and Interaction in Institutional Discourse. London: Longman (Pearson Education), 2002.

Authenticity in Media Discourse. Special issue of Discourse Studies. 3 (4) 2001 (guest co-editor with Theo van Leeuwen).

Broadcast Talk. Special Issue of Text 17 (2) 1997. (Guest editor).

Having their Say: the Function of Stories in Talk Show Discourse. Text 17 (2) 1997, 241-262.

Children's Participation in the Discourse of Children's Television. In Hutchby, I. and J. Moran Ellis (eds), 1997. Children and Social Competence: Arenas of Action. London: Falmer Press, 134-154.

Language and the Media. In Thomas, L and Wareing, S. (eds) (1999). Language, Society and Power. London: Routledge, 50-63.

Principal, Plausibility and the Historic Present: The Construction of Conflicting Accounts in Public Participation TV. Language in Society, 29 (3) 2000 (357-377)

'Has this ever happened to you?': Talk Show Narratives as Mediated Performance. In Tolson A. (ed) The Talk Show Phenomenon. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum 2000, (117-137).

Questions, control and the organisation of talk in calls to a radio phone-in. Discourse Studies, 3 (1) 2001, (119-143).

Authenticating talk: building public identities in audience participation broadcasting. Discourse Studies, 3 (4) 2001, (459-479).

From problematic object to routine ‘add-on’: dealing with emails in radio phone-ins. With Richard Fitzgerald. Discourse Studies 4 (2) 2002, (201-223)

Meta-narratives of Cultural Experience: Race, Class, Gender. (Response to Corinne Squire 2002). Narrative Inquiry, 12 (2) 449-455.

Language and the Media. In Peccei and Singh (eds) Language, Society and Power (2nd Edition, forthcoming). London: Routledge.

Slagging off and strategy: the management of gossip on Big Brother. (with Deborah Morris) forthcoming, Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2004.