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Dr Joanna Thornborrow - BA, M.Litt (Strathclyde), PhD (Strathclyde)

Overview

Dr Joanna Thornborrow Position: Reader Email: ThornborrowJ1@cf.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)29 208 76041
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74242
Extension: 76041
Location: Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Cathays, Cardiff

Research Group

Centre for Language and Communication Research

Research Interests

Discourse and conversation analysis, media discourse and broadcast talk; children’s institutional interaction, discourse stylistics.

Selected Publications

Thornborrow, J. and Montgomery, M. (eds), (2010) Personalisation in the Broadcast News Interview; Special Issue, Discourse and Communication 4 (2).

Thornborrow, J. and Coates, J. (eds), 2005. The Sociolinguistics of Narrative. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Thornborrow, J. 2002. Power Talk: Language and Interaction in Institutional Discourse. London: Longman (Pearson Education).

Publications

Books and Edited Collections

Broadcast Talk. Special Issue of Text 17 (2) 1997. (Guest editor).

Thornborrow, Joanna and Wareing, Shan, (1998). Patterns in Language: An introduction to language and literary style. London: Routledge.

Authenticity in Media Discourse. Special issue of Discourse Studies. 3 (4) 2001 (guest co-editor with Theo van Leeuwen).

Thornborrow, Joanna, (2002). Power Talk: Language and Interaction in Institutional Discourse. London: Longman (Pearson Education).

Thornborrow, Joanna and Coates, Jennifer (eds) (2005). The Sociolinguistics of Narrative. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

Thornborrow, Joanna and Montgomery, Martin. (eds), (2010) Personalisation in the Broadcast News Interview; Special Issue, Discourse and Communication 4 (2).

Chapters and Journal Articles

Thornborrow, Joanna, (1993). Metaphors of Security: a comparison of post cold war European defence discourse in Britain and France. Discourse and Society 4 (1), 99-119.

Thornborrow, Joanna, (1994). The Woman, the Man and the Filofax: Gender Positions in Advertising. In Mills, S. (ed) Gendering the Reader. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 128-152.

Thornborrow, Joanna, (1995). Women in the Arts and Media. In Coates, J. and B. Madoc Jones (eds), An Introduction to Women's Studies. Oxford: Blackwell, 206-227.

Thornborrow, Joanna, (1997), Playing Power: Gendered Discourse in a Computer Games Magazine. Language and Literature 6 (1), 43-55.

Thornborrow, Joanna, (1997), Having their Say: The Function of Stories in Talk Show Discourse'. Text 17 (2), 241-262.

Thornborrow, Joanna, (1997). Children's Participation in the Discourse of Children's Television. In Hutchby, I. and J. Moran Ellis (eds), Children and Social Competence: Arenas of Action. London: Falmer Press, 134-154.

Thornborrow, Joanna, (1998). Playing Hard to Get: Representation and Metaphor in Car Advertisements. Language and Literature 7 (3), 254-272.

Thornborrow, Joanna, (1999). Language and Social Identity. In Thomas, L and Wareing, S. (eds), Language, Society and Power. London: Routledge, 135-149.

Thornborrow, Joanna, (1999). Language and the Media. In Thomas, L and Wareing, S. (eds), Language, Society and Power. London: Routledge, 50-63.

Thornborrow, Joanna, (2000). Principal, Plausibility and the Historic Present: The Construction of Conflicting Accounts in Public Participation TV. Language in Society, 29 (3), 357-377.

Thornborrow, Joanna, (2001). 'Has this ever happened to you?': Talk Show Narratives as Mediated Performance. In Tolson A. (ed) The Talk Show Phenomenon. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 117-137.

Thornborrow, Joanna, (2001). Questions, control and the organisation of talk in calls to a radio phone-in. Discourse Studies, 3 (1), 119-143.

Thornborrow, Joanna, (2001). Authenticating talk: building public identities in audience participation broadcasting. Discourse Studies, 3 (4), 459-479.

Thornborrow, Joanna and Fitzgerald, Richard, (2002). From problematic object to routine ‘add-on': dealing with emails in radio phone-ins. Discourse Studies 4 (2), 201-223.

Thornborrow, Joanna, (2002). Meta-narratives of Cultural Experience: Race, Class, Gender. Response to Corinne Squire. Narrative Inquiry, 12 (2) 449-455.

Thornborrow, Joanna, (2003). The organisation of primary school children's on-task and off-task talk in a small group setting. Research on Language and Social Interaction 36 (1), 7-32.

Machin, David and Thornborrow, Joanna, (2003). Branding and discourse: the case of Cosmopolitan. Discourse and Society, 14 (4), 453-506.

Thornborrow, Joanna, (2004). Language and the Media. In Thomas, L., Wareing, S., Singh, I, Peccei, J, Thornborrow, J. and Jones, J., Language, Society and Power (2nd Edition). London: Routledge, 55-74.

Thornborrow, Joanna, (2004). Language and Identity. In Thomas, L., Wareing, S., Singh, I, Peccei, J, Thornborrow, J. and Jones, J., Language, Society and Power (2nd Edition). London: Routledge, 157-172.

Jones, Rod and Thornborrow, Joanna, (2004). Floors, talk and the organisation of classroom activities. Language in Society, 33 (3): 233-423.

Thornborrow, Joanna and Morris, Deborah, (2004). Gossip as strategy: the management of talk about others reality TV show ‘Big Brother'. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 8 (2), 246-271.

Thornborrow, Joanna and Fitzgerald, Richard, (2004). Storying the News through category, action and reason. The Communication Review 7: 1-8.

Thornborrow, Joanna and Coates, Jennifer (eds) (2005). The Sociolinguistics of Narrative. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Thornborrow, Joanna and Coates, Jennifer (2005). The sociolinguistics of narrative: Identity, performance, culture. In The Sociolinguistics of Narrative. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1-16.

Thornborrow, Joanna (2005). Media and Language: Analysis and Methods. In Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed). K. Brown (ed).

Thornborrow, Joanna. (2006). Poetic Language. In The Art of English: Literary Creativity. S. Goodman and K. O’Halloran (eds) Milton Keynes: Palgrave Macmillan, 49-74.

Machin, David and Thornborrow, Joanna (2006). The depoliticisation of agency: sex as power in women's magazines. Social Semiotics 16 (1), 173-188.

Thornborrow, Joanna (2007) Narrative, stance and situated argument in talk show discourse in Kilroy. Journal of Pragmatics, Special issue on Argumentation in TV Talk Shows. K. Aijmer and G. Lauerback, (eds).

Thornborrow, Joanna (2010) Questions and institutionality in public participation broadcasting. In Freed & Ehrlich (eds) ‘Why do you ask?’: The function of questions in Institutional Discourse. Oxford: OUP, pp279-298.

Thornborrow Joanna (2010) ‘Going Public’: Constructing the personal in a television news interview’ Discourse and Communication 4 (2) 105-123.

Thornborrow, Joanna, Haarman, Louann & Duguid, Alison (in press) Discourses of European Identity in British, Italian and French TV News. In Bayley and Williams (eds) Europe: What the Media SayOxford: OUP

Research

My recent research has been with IntUne, an EU-funded FP6 integrated project on citizenship, identity and governance in an expanding European Union. My contribution has involved building a TV news corpus from four EU member states, and producing a comparative study of discourses of European identity in Italian, UK and French news. Work on this unique data corpus continues although the project has now officially ended. Information about the research teams, forthcoming IntUne publications and related research can be found on the website at http://www.intune.it/

Other ongoing research interests are centred on aspects of broadcast talk, particularly discourses of public participation in broadcast media. This work has developed through my long association with the Ross Priory Seminar Group on Broadcast Talk. My most recent publication is a special issue of Discourse and Communication on ‘Personalisation in the broadcast news interview’, co-edited with Martin Montgomery (University of Macao). The website for this research network is currently being updated, but some details about the work of this innovative, interdisciplinary and international group of researchers is available at http://www.maaso.no/Ross/

Biography

I gained my PhD at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, and before taking up my post as a lecturer at Cardiff University in 1999 I worked at the British Institute in Paris, and then at Roehampton University, London. I teach on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the Centre for Language and Communication Research, convening modules on qualitative research methods for the MA and modules on the Discourse of Broadcasting and Linguistics for Literature for the BA and English Language and Communication. I am also involved in postgraduate research supervision, with PhD students currently working in areas of media discourse analysis.