Reporting racism in broadcast interview

Bibliographic Data

ID10902808
AuthorsYarong Xie (0000-0002-4335-8120, School of Philosophy Psychology and Language Sciences The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume54
Issue1
Pages170-182
Publication date2024-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0046-2772 • E-ISSN: 1099-0992
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/ejsp.3005
OpenAlexW4387359267
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited62

This study examines invited reports of racism in broadcast interviews. Guided by discursive psychology (DP) and conversation analysis (CA), the investigation focuses on the interactional moments wherein the interviewee (is invited to) describe a racist incident. Expanding existing DP and CA research on complaints of racism, this analysis shows how reported speech is treated by speakers as an indispensable device in reproducing the incident and providing evidence for the racism reported. This investigation provides further evidence for how speakers treat reporting racism as a sensitive business. This is reflected in the interviewee's accounts as they begin by describing the circumstance of the incident, and the interviewer's collaboration in co‐constructing the interviewee's accounts and co‐managing the trajectory of the interview. Overall, the analysis spotlights how an auspicious environment for victims to talk about their experiences of racism is created and fostered at both institutional and interactional levels

Conversation · Conversation analysis · Discourse analysis · Discursive psychology · Interview · Linguistics · Racism · Sociology · Communication · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Social Psychology

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