Morality, loyalty and eloquence

Conversational challenges and resources in a televised confrontational dialogue

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6084591
AutoresZohar Livnat (0000-0001-6689-6709), Ayelet Kohn (0000-0002-0871-4492, David Yellin College of Education)
Año2018
Volumen17
Número3
Páginas405-427
Fecha de publicación2018-07-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jlp.17001.liv
OpenAlexW2783409498
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas22

The new dialogic, conversational nature of television broadcast news (Hamo, 2009) poses a challenge to traditional commentators, who are forced to move from an authoritative monologue to a confrontational dialogue that requires additional flexibility and conversational skills. The paper focuses on an Israeli case study which presents a confrontational dialogue in which one of the discussants is an experienced military correspondent and commentator. We demonstrate the various resources he uses in order to cope with a complex discursive challenge by using multimodal tools, both verbal and visual (Kress 2010; Kress and Van Leeuwen 2001; Jewitt and Oyama 2001). Besides interrupting his interlocutor’s eloquent discourse in any possible way, demonstrating his well-known direct and involved television persona, the military correspondent employs institutional discursive resources such as using authoritative voice and taking the role of the mediator. Concession structures (Anscombre 1985) reflect his inner moral conflict toward the issue (Livnat 2012

Dialogic · Flexibility (engineering · Humanities · Linguistics · Loyalty · Morality · Order (exchange · Pedagogy · Persona · Political science · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy