Family norms negotiation: discourse analysis of a Russian talk show
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15/02/2023Item status
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Kamalova, Alina
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Abstract
The study examines identity and ideology construction in family
discourse in Pust’ Govoriat top-rated Russian tabloid talk show. Previous
research mostly focused on family discourse in workplaces and natural family
environments. While research on family discourse in media talk has also
yielded a number of valuable publications, however, there is little research on
family identities and ideologies presented on-air from the critical discourse
analytic perspective.
By blending theories and methods of narrative analysis, membership
categorisation analysis, stance-taking approach, critical discourse analysis
(CDA) together the corpus-based instruments, the study examines
interactional patterns and linguistic behaviour of the talk show participants to
understand how they construct themselves and others as family members.
This allows me to answer the question, how talk show participants negotiate
family roles, norms, and values within the tabloid talk show genre. As identity
and values are inseparable from ideology, I analyse to what extent the
discourse displayed in Pust’ Govoriat shapes and is shaped by the Russian
government’s family policies.
The analysis shows that the family discourse constructed throughout
the tabloid talk show interactions is both socially constitutive and socially
conditioned. The used framework allows advocating that domesticated
Russian tabloid talk show format, as an integral part of the federal First
Channel, is utilised as a tool to promote traditional family values, patriarchal
gender roles, and to broadcast state ideology on such issues as same-sex and
civil marriage, abortions, maternity capital, and child adoption. The
sociolinguistic analysis of tabloid talk show interactions makes a mediated
family discourse a major part of the country’s cultural matrix both influencing
and dependent on socio-political processes.