Ruth Ayaß

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ruth Ayaß is involved.

Title

The Appropriation of Media in Everyday Life

Edited by Ruth Ayaß and Cornelia Gerhardt

This volume contributes to the burgeoning field of interactional linguistic media studies. It focuses on how people appropriate media in their daily lives. Thus here it is not the talk in the medium itself, but naturally occurring interactions in different media reception situations that are… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 224] 2012. vii, 308 pp.

Articles

Ayaß, Ruth 2012 Communicative activities during the television reception: General and genre specific structures of recipients’ talk The Appropriation of Media in Everyday Life, Ayaß, Ruth and Cornelia Gerhardt (eds.), pp. 23–46 | Article

After decades of behavioristic media research, there is now a new media research that not only asks what “people do with media”, but also addresses mass media recipients as “interpretive communities”. I will present results from an empirical study on television reception which analyzes audiotapes… read more

Ayaß, Ruth 2012 Introduction: Media appropriation and everyday life The Appropriation of Media in Everyday Life, Ayaß, Ruth and Cornelia Gerhardt (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article