Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Reality television: a discourse-analytical perspective

Chapter 3 Discourse approaches to the study of reality television

Chapter 4 How ‘real’ is reality television in China? On the success of a Chinese dating programme

Chapter 5 The (inter)play of nationality, religiosity and gender: textual mechanisms for the rich representation of Israeli identity on a reality race gamedoc

Chapter 6 ‘There’s no harm, is there, in letting your emotions out’: a multimodal perspective on language, emotion and identity in MasterChef Australia

Chapter 7 The aesthetics of poverty and crime in Argentinean reality television

Chapter 8 Heroic endeavours: flying high in New Zealand reality television

Chapter 9 (Im)politeness and exploitative TV in Britain and North America: The X Factor and American Idol

Chapter 10 Impoliteness in US/UK talent shows: a diachronic study of the evolution of a genre

Chapter 11 ‘No eres inteligente ni para tener amigos… Pues anda que tú’ [‘You are not even clever enough to have any friends… Look who’s talking!’]: a quantitative analysis of the production and reception of impoliteness in present-day Spanish reality television

Chapter 12 ‘You are killing your kids’: framing and impoliteness in a health makeover reality TV show

Chapter 13 Moments of truth: telling it like it is on The Jeremy Kyle Show