Cover; Half-title; Series title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Transcription conventions; Focus-group data; Chapter 1 Paradoxes of opinion; Chapter 2 A tool kit for analysing group discussions; Chapter 3 Forums for opinion: 'What is it that's going on here?'; Chapter 4 Institutions of opinion: voice of the people?; Chapter 5 Topics in interaction: 'Why that now?'; Chapter 6 Agreeing and disagreeing: maintaining sociable argument; Chapter 7 Representing speech: other voices, other places; Chapter 8 Questioning expertise: Who says?
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Matters of Opinion offers an interesting new insight into 'public opinion' as reported in the media. Drawing on conversations from focus groups, phone-ins and broadcast interviews, Greg Myers asks where these opinions actually come from, and how they have their effects, and what it means to participate in public life.