Positioning in Media Dialogue

This book is a series of analyses of how interviewers and interviewees position themselves and \neach other in Israeli television news interviews, all based on interviews from the early evening \ncurrent affairs show, ‘Erev Xadash’ in the early 1990s. There is a lot of convincing, not to \nmention enjoyable, close analysis of moments of verbal sparring in Israeli televised politics that \nwill add to understanding of the news interview and of institutional talk in general. Weizman \nbrings together insights from across the discourse analytic literature to tease out aspects of the \nrelations between participants and the textual strategies through which those relations are \nnegotiated. The chapters exploring the use of irony and terms of address in what Weizman terms \nthe ‘challenge-saturated environments’ of Israeli news interviews make particularly interesting \nreading. It is here that the book’s conclusions are concentrated – for example, that interviewees \nrarely make ironic statements at the expense of the interviewer, and more often at the expense of \nthird parties, while interviewers are more likely to target political figures they are interviewing, \nbut rarely others

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