[ecrea] new publication - La parole à la télévision

Amey P. (2009), La parole à la télévision. Les 
dispositifs des talk-shows. Paris, Coll. Communication et Civilisation

English summary
The late 1980s saw an explosion of discussion 
shows on French television. Reality shows, 
debates based on public participation and the 
full range of talk shows all serve as platforms 
for representation that draw on distinct 
conversational tones and social imaginaries. 
These discussion shows, whether a forum for 
mediation, sociability, intimate confessions or 
debate, all have something in common: they are 
configured by televisual mechanisms that direct 
discussions, arrange the set design and assign 
participants a verbal role. How has the staging 
of these television shows evolved, and what are 
the social and political contexts that inform 
them? What distinguishes them and what links 
them? This work strives to answer these questions 
using television-based sociology and analysis of 
televisual discourses. The author constructs a 
theoretical framework capable of exploring the 
material, discursive and symbolic configuration 
of the way in which discussions are staged. He 
then applies this framework to a body of 
television shows that symbolize the type of 
programming featured on French television over 
recent decades, including Droit de réponse, Du 
fer dans les épinards, Ça se discute, Tout le 
monde en parle and Le Grand Journal. The book 
provides the historical perspective needed to 
retrace the evolution of the status attained by 
television. Over the years, television has opened 
up to voicing the opinions of ordinary people 
whilst becoming a speaking participant, mediator, 
agent of intervention and, finally, performer in 
predictable and preformatted discussion shows.

Author : Patrick Amey is a senior lecturer at the 
University of Geneva?s sociology department and 
teaches on the Communication and Media Sciences 
masters course. His research work focuses on the 
analysis of televisual discourses.

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