Non-neutrality and argument in the hybrid political interview

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5965130
AutoresI Hutchby (0000-0002-8469-1667, University of Leicester, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume13
Fascículo3
Páginas349-365
Data de publicação2011-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1461445611400665
OpenAlexW1996999163
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas41
Referências citadas24

This article explores the nature of argumentative interaction in the hybrid political interview: a broadcast news genre whose discourse positions the journalist not just as investigator but as socio-political advocate. Such interviews offer explicit challenges to the traditionally conceived ‘neutral’ role of the broadcast news journalist. Interviewer ‘non-neutrality’ is examined in contexts where the speech exchange system shifts into the unmitigated and aggravated opposition characteristic of argument. Drawing on a sample of interviews involving different hosts, I analyse the structural features of both interviewer and interviewee turns that occur in these environments. I do this in relation both to sequential matters - that is, the types of turns taken and their relations with other turns in their immediate environment - and to matters of the substantive content of utterances - that is, what speakers are saying and/or the way they are saying it

Argumentative · Epistemology · Interview · Linguistics · Media studies · Neutrality · Political communication · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology