Hutchby2011
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Ian Hutchby |
| Title | Non-neutrality and argument in the hybrid political interview |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Broadcast, Hybrid discourse, Infotainment, News interviews, Political communication |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Journal | Discourse Studies |
| Volume | 7 |
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| Pages | 147-171 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461445611400665 |
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Abstract
This article explores the nature of argumentative interaction in the hybrid political interview: a broadcast news genre whose discourse positions the journalist not just as investigator but as socio-political advocate. Such interviews offer explicit challenges to the traditionally conceived ‘neutral’ role of the broadcast news journalist. Interviewer ‘non-neutrality’ is examined in contexts where the speech exchange system shifts into the unmitigated and aggravated opposition characteristic of argument. Drawing on a sample of interviews involving different hosts, I analyse the structural features of both interviewer and interviewee turns that occur in these environments. I do this in relation both to sequential matters — that is, the types of turns taken and their relations with other turns in their immediate environment — and to matters of the substantive content of utterances — that is, what speakers are saying and/or the way they are saying it.
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