Authentic Talk
by Shirly Wong
1. Features of the talk itself
1.1. Fresh talk
1.1.1. Role of the speaker
1.1.1.1. Goffman 'framework'
1.1.1.1.1. author
1.1.1.1.2. animator
1.1.1.1.3. principal
1.2. Conversational Mode
1.3. 'naturalism'
1.3.1. time-'real time'
1.3.2. parties-'more than one'
1.3.3. interaction
1.3.4. topic-'the direction cannot be predicted'
1.3.5. speaker change
1.3.6. no prior allocation of turns
2. origin
2.1. verbal- authenticity of the speaker
2.2. textual- having reliable sources
3. Culture it projects
3.1. Role in broadcasting
3.1.1. intuition talks are not common, but most of the talks are designed to be natural.
3.1.2. synthetic personalization
3.1.3. own experience, sponstaniously
3.2. Values conveyed
3.2.1. egalitarianism
3.2.2. informality
3.2.3. intimacy
3.2.4. possibility for participation