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The Interaction Order on Talk Radio

Exploring Portuguese Radio Phone-In Programs

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The Interaction Order on Talk Radio

Exploring Portuguese Radio Phone-In Programs

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Using an analytical framework from interactional linguistics, this book develops a linguistic analysis of verbal interactions. Based on a wide range of discursive exchanges between announcers and listeners from five Portuguese nighttime radio programs, Carla Aurélia de Almeida discusses the discourse strategies of caller and host and the verbal rituals that contribute to the maintenance of interactional order and institutional power. This book highlights the theoretical and methodological issues underlying the study of language in operation, characterizes the generic coordinates of institutional radio discourse, and identifies the way in which the ritualization of discursive practices is constructed. De Almeida studies face-saving strategies and phenomena like hesitations, repetitions, mitigation devices, discourse intensifiers, and directive or continuative host interventions.

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Jan 22 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 1
ISBN 9781793606730
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Carla Aurélia Rodrigues de Almeida

Carla Aurélia Rodrigues de Almeida is Associate Pr…

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