Violencia verbal en los medios de comunicación británicos: estudio de corpus.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a case study on the expression and function of directives of warning and threat in audience discussion programmes in British television. Firstly, drawing from literature on conflict talk, I will argue the reasons why verbal disputes should be analysed in audience discussion programmes. Second, I will comment on the data selected and transcribed to carry out the analysis. Third, I will define the scope of the study and the hypothesis proposed. By focusing on the microstructure of conversation at the level of exchange, I will delve into the pragmatic function and the linguistic realisation of these particular directives and propose a clear connection between their use and the three-move exchange as the basic organisational unit of conflict talk.