Achieving discourse truth in doing affiliated news interviews

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7477336
AutoresDebing Feng (0000-0001-5177-8697, Hangzhou Normal University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen23
Número11
Páginas2400-2416
Fecha de publicación2021-04-07
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournalism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14648849211008090
OpenAlexW3154753374
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas29

In affiliated news interviews, interviewees are both reporters and commentators, thus often caught in the dilemma of whether to interpret or report. Based on Stephen J. A. Ward’s theory of pragmatic objectivity, this article responds to this question by proposing a concept of discourse truth and applying it to the analysis of affiliated news interviews collected from BBC News at Ten. It is found that journalists in such interviews tend to achieve a sense of discourse truth through three primary discourse practices, including achieving journalistic authority, emphasizing authenticity of news and displaying journalistic neutrality. These practices are in turn realized through a variety of discourse strategies such as identity credentials, personalization, modality, third-party attribution and metadiscourse expressions. The results show that objectivity can be maintained through discourse truth, even when news is interpreted. Discourse truth can reflect the authenticity of talk to some extent. It is, however, not the fact itself, but the reality constructed in the news

Attribution · Dilemma · Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Linguistics · Metadiscourse · Neutrality · Objectivity (philosophy · Personalization · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Philosophy · Social Psychology