The Emergence and Popularity of Reality TV

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1. Introduction The emergence and soon popularity of reality TV in some degree demonstrates the huge market of selling “real experience” through exposing “realities” of privacy, relationship between players, etc. (Deery 2004 in TV program area.). However, reality TV may not be intrinsically “real” though almost all involved players are unprofessional actors and programs are usually highly inscribed. Players are actually selected carefully (e.g. audition or interviews) and constrained by various signed agreements and all filmed scene sections are delicately edited with special purposes, making reality TV kind of erasing reality and fiction together (Bingchun & George (2003)). Hell’s Kitchen is one of the “completion” type (Appleton & Yankelevits 2010) reality TV in America. This program proposes all contestants completing against each other and at least one player will be eliminated every episode according to their performance (mainly in cooking capability and teamwork corporation aspects) judged by the chef, Ramsay. Apparently, Ramsay in the setting process absolute power in elevating contestant performances under various tasks (e.g. cook a certain dish) and deciding directly who should be eliminated or indirectly who will be the winner (survived the last). The article presents discussions on some elements of the used language of the chef Ramsay in the perspective of powder realization through analyzing under the concept of register (Haliday 2004), which suggests that people tend to use certain recognizable configurations of linguistic resources in certain contexts. (Geoff 2004) Register could be divide into three dimensions, which are related the threes aspects of metafunctions (Haliday 2004): field concerns with what is bein... ... middle of paper ... ...nd the his used language. However, though analyzed with the discourse theory register, the presented findings in the angle of power realization may fail to cover all the used languages of Ramsey in the reality TV program Hell’s Kitchen, considering the limited sample size (less than 2 minutes Transcript), argument purpose selected clips (most presented scenes are arguments related) and the fact that reality TV program process a high tolerance for changes in the used languages — to be “real”. Works Cited Amrin. Saragih, (2007). Introducing Systemic Functional Grammar. Oxford: OUP. Deery (2004) Reality TV as Advertainment Geoff Thompson,(2004). Introducing Functional Grammar 2nd. Oxford: OUP. Halliday, M.A.K. (2004). An Introduction to Functional Grammar 3rd. Oxford: OUP. Linda G. & Peter W. (2004). Making sense of functional Grammar. Sydney: Southwood Press

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