Rola publiczności w telewizyjnych rozmowach typu talk-show

The authors of the article provide the answer to the question of what the role of television talk show audience is. Assuming the existence of an interactive perspective, they consider how the fact of a studio audience’s active participation [i.e. verbal manifestation] in a discussion influences the nature of a discussion. They try to concord to what extent the awareness of being a passive participant in the show [silent audience at the studio or at home in front of TV sets] affects the choice of attitudes and conversational strategies of the moderator and his / her guests. A mass recipient - within the context of observations - who is not entitled to be in a privileged position in the discussion as other participants of the talk show, is anyhow considered an important ‘characteristic feature’ and at the same time, it is the most mysterious element of such shows