How Does A Prime Minister Speak

Kevin Rudd’s discourse, habitus, and negotiation of the journalistic and political fields

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6084744
AutoresGeoffrey Craig (0000-0002-8888-1820)
Año2013
Volumen12
Número4
Páginas485-507
Fecha de publicación2013-12-31
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
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.12.4.01cra
OpenAlexW1990318988
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas26

This paper investigates how political subjectivity is framed and expressed through language use in television political interviews. The paper argues that Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and field provide a useful framework for analyses of political subjectivity in news media interviews, but it also argues that the more sociological emphasis of Bourdieu’s theory cannot sufficiently account for the constitutive importance of discourse in the agency of the habitus and the boundaries and authority of different fields. As such, the analysis also draws on critical discourse analysis to demonstrate how Prime Ministerial discourse involves negotiations of different constitutive features of an individual subjectivity, and also negotiations between a particular habitus and the exigencies of the journalistic and political fields. Through an analysis of interviews of former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on influential Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) programmes,Insidersand the7.30 Report, it is argued that the Prime Minister attempts to exercise political authority through an ensemble of discourses, initiating different relations with the interviewers, political colleagues and opponents, leading public figures in other fields, and the Australian public

Agency (philosophy · Critical discourse analysis · Critical theory · Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Habitus · Ideology · Linguistics · Media studies · Negotiation · Political science · Political subjectivity · Politics · Prime minister · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Media Studies and Communication · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Media and Politics · Gender Studies · Law