"Investigating Media Discourse explores spoken interactions in the media, including chat shows, interviews with celebrities, radio phone-ins and political interviews with leaders such as Tony Blair and George W. Bush, using a corpus of radio and television extracts from around the English-speaking world." "The main theoretical framework used in this work is influenced by Erving Goffman, where the media encounter is viewed as a three-way participation framework involving the broadcaster, interviewee and audience, all of whom shape the interaction. From this viewpoint the interactions are analysed to illustrate how they are managed, how pseudo-relationships are established and maintained, and how 'others' are created." "The book brings together methodologies of discourse analysis, conversation analysis and corpus linguistics so that the media extracts presented are explored from different perspectives in a practical way and numerous insights are provided that could not have been achieved using one method alone."--Jacket.