Joanna Thornborrow

List of John Benjamins publications in which Joanna Thornborrow is involved.

Book series

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture

General Editor: Jo Angouri and Johann Wolfgang Unger

ISSN 1569-9463

Title

The Sociolinguistics of Narrative

Edited by Joanna Thornborrow and Jennifer Coates

This book aims to appraise sociolinguistic work devoted to the form and function of storytelling and to examine in detail the ways in which narrative constitutes a fundamental discursive resource across a range of contexts. The chapters presented here bring together some of the most recent work in… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 6] 2005. vi, 300 pp.

Fitzgerald, Richard and Joanna Thornborrow 2017 ‘I’m a Scouser’: Membership categories and political geography in the 2015 UK Election Call Phone-in The micro-politics of sequential organization: Contributions from conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, Mondada, Lorenza and Sara Keel (eds.), pp. 40–58 | Article

Despite the emergence of newer forms of web-based political engagement, radio phone-ins continue to have a significant role in the enactment of the democratic process, providing a live forum for direct encounters between members of the public and politicians, beyond the professional forms of… read more

Thornborrow, Joanna and Richard Fitzgerald 2013 “Grab a pen and paper”: Interaction v. interactivity in a political radio phone-in Journal of Language and Politics 12:1, pp. 1–28 | Article

In this paper we analyse the discursive frameworks for interaction in a UK political radio phone-in between 2001 and 2010, and the implications of those frameworks for public engagement with politicians. The BBC Radio 4 phone-in program Election Call, broadcast in the run-up to a general election,… read more

Thornborrow, Joanna and Jennifer Coates 2005 The Sociolinguistics of Narrative: Identity, performance, culture The Sociolinguistics of Narrative, Thornborrow, Joanna and Jennifer Coates (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article

Thornborrow, Joanna 2004 Meta-narratives of cultural experience: Race, class, gender Considering Counter-Narratives: Narrating, resisting, making sense, Bamberg, Michael and Molly Andrews (eds.), pp. 270–275 | Article

Thornborrow, Joanna 2002 Meta-narratives of Cultural Experience: Race, Class, Gender Narrative Inquiry 12:2, pp. 447–453 | Miscellaneous