The use of rhetorical reformulations and hesitation for achieving the audience’s acceptance in Reality shows

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, André Luiz dos
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Burgo, Vanessa Hagemeyer, Storto, Letícia Jovelina, Ferreira, Eduardo Francisco
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Entretextos
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/entretextos/article/view/13616
• topic: Rhetorical Reformulation; Repetition; Hesitation; Face-Work; Spoken English; Reformulação Retórica; Hesitação; Preservação da Face; Inglês Falado

This article deals with the hesitation, repetition and rhetorical formulations used by the competitors of a reality show program in order to have their positive faces preserved and, consequently, to get the audience’s agreement and acceptance. The corpus of this study is composed of the recording of the episode entitled "Reunited" from the second season of the reality show "Ru Paul’s Drag Race" aired by VHI, a cable television channel, on Thursdays at 09:00 PM. We highlight that the corpus can be classified as a spontaneous conversation as it presents the basic characteristics of the spoken text, such as: low level of verbal planning, involvement of partners with each other and with the subject, and the existence of a shared space among interactants. In such case, the descriptions of linguistic materiality and the qualitative interpretations based on concepts of Conversation Analysis are used. Finally, the results obtained from the analysis of rhetorical formulations are presented, particularly concerning repetition and hesitation, emphasizing the intentional use of these resources by speakers whose aim is to build a positive image and increase their popularity among the viewers of the program.