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Author Sierra, Sylvia, author.

Title Millennials talking media : creating intertextual identities in everyday conversation / Sylvia Sierra
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 183 pages) : illustrations
Summary "This book examines how U.S. Millennial friends embed both old media (books, songs, films, TV shows) and new media (YouTube videos, videogames, and internet memes) in their everyday talk for particular interactional purposes. Multiple case studies are presented featuring the recorded talk of Millennial friends to demonstrate how and why these speakers make media references in their conversations. These recorded conversations are supplemented with participant playback interviews, along with ethnographic fieldnotes. The analysis demonstrates how the speakers phonetically signal media references in the speech stream, how they demonstrate appreciation of the references in their listening behaviors, and how they ultimately use media references for epistemic, framing, and identity construction purposes, often when faced with interactional dilemmas. The analysis shows how such references contribute to epistemic management and frame shifts in conversation, which is ultimately conducive to different forms of Millennial identity construction. Additionally, this book explores the stereotypes embedded in the media that these Millennials quote, and examines the effects of reproducing those stereotypes in everyday social life. This fascinating book explores how the boundaries between screens, online and offline life, language, and identity are porous for Millennials, and weaves together the most current linguistic theories regarding knowledge, framing, and identity work in everyday interaction, illuminating the interplay between these processes. Media, intertextuality, epistemics, frames, identity, millennials, stereotypes, performance, memes, videogames"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 06, 2021)
Subject Generation Y -- United States -- Communication
Interpersonal communication -- United States
Intertextuality.
Discourse analysis -- Social aspects -- United States
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media.
Mass media and language -- United States
Generation Y -- Communication.
Discourse analysis -- Social aspects.
Interpersonal communication.
Intertextuality.
Mass media and language.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media.
United States.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021013374
ISBN 9780190931155
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9780190931131
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