So my position is
So-prefaced answers and epistemic authority in British news interviews
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6084169 |
|---|---|
| Authors | I Hutchby (0000-0002-8469-1667) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 563-582 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/jlp.19089.hut |
| OpenAlex | W3013653883 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 14 |
This article examines the interactional functions of the so-prefaced answer, when used by interviewees in news and other political discussion broadcasts. Using the methods of conversation analysis, based on a data corpus of recent broadcasts from British mainstream television, the analysis shows that the so-preface functions in a cluster of related ways within the question-answer discourse structure of the political news interview. Specifically, it is used to reset or reframe the prior question from a standpoint of epistemic authority, enabling the interviewee to answer on their terms rather than the interviewer’s
Cognitive reframing · Conversation · Conversation analysis · Epistemology · Interview · Linguistics · Mainstream · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Reset (finance · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Communication · Law · Philosophy · Social Psychology
The News Interview
Glossary of transcript symbols with an introduction
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Obama in the No Spin Zone
Chapter 2. The accountability interview, politics and change in UK public service broadcasting
Constructing skepticism
Aspects of Topical Organization in News Interviews
Beginning to Respond
Non-neutrality and argument in the hybrid political interview
Little Words That Matter
Turn-initial position and some of its occupants
A turn-taking system for British news interviews
Slipperiness, Evasion, and Ambiguity
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |