Dr Richard Fitzgerald
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Background:
Richard Fitzgerald’s research and publications explore media interaction and language, particularly in the areas of news and public access radio discourse, and the development and application of the methodology of Membership Categorization Analysis and Conversation Analysis for exploring the organisation of cultural knowledge and identity in interaction.
Methodological Expertise:
Conversation Analysis
Discourse Analysis
Ethnomethodology
Membership Categorisation Analysis
Research Interests:
Talk and Interaction
Radio Language
Media and Political Language
Selected Publications:
Books:
McKay, S., Fitzgerald, R. Language in Contemporary Media. Edinburgh University Press. (Forthcoming, due 2010)
Fitzgerald, R., Housley, W. (Eds.) Media, Policy and Debate. Ashgate (Forthcoming, due 2009)
Selected Journal Articles/Book Chapters:
Housley, W., Fitzgerald. R. (2009) Membership categorization, culture and norms in action Discourse & Society 2009 20: 345-362.
Fitzgerald, R., Housley, W., Butler, C. (2008) Omni-relevance and Interactional context. Cardiff School of Social Sciences Working Paper Series. 109. http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/research/publications/workingpapers/paper-109.html109.
Housley, W., Fitzgerald R. (2008) Motives and social organization: sociological amnesia, sychological description and the analysis of accounts. Qualitative Research. Vol. 8(2) 237-256.
Jaworski, A., Fitzgerald, R, (2008) ‘The poll has not happened yet’: temporal play in election predictions. Discourse and Communication. Vol. 2. (1) 5-27.
Housley, W., Fitzgerald, R. (2007) Categorisation, Interaction, Policy and Debate. Critical Discourse Studies. Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 187–206
Fitzgerald, R., Housley, W (2006) Category, Motive and Accounts: Devolution in Wales. In John Wilson and Karen Stapleton 'Devolution and Identity'. Ashgate. Aldershot. p111-126.
Jaworski, A., Fitzgerald, R., Morris, D. (2004) Radio leaks: Presenting and Contesting leaks in radio news broadcasts. Journalism, Theory and Practice 5/2: 183-202.
Jaworski, A., Fitzgerald, R, Morris, D. (2003) Certainty and Speculation in Broadcast News Reporting of the Future: The Execution of Timothy McVeigh. Discourse Studies. 5(1) 33-4.
Fitzgerald, R., Housley. W. (2002) Identity, categorisation and sequential organisation: the sequential and categorial flow of identity in a radio phone-in. Discourse and Society 13(5): 579-602.
Housley, W., Fitzgerald, R. (2002) A Reconsidered model of Membership Categorisation Analysis. Qualitative Research 2(1) 59-84.
Hester, S., Fitzgerald, R. (1999) Category, Predicate and Contrast: Some Organisational Features in a Radio Talk Show. In Jalbert. P. (Ed) Media Studies: Ethnomethodological Approaches. SECA. UPA.
