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So-prefaced answers and epistemic authority in British news interviews

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6084169
AutoresI Hutchby (0000-0002-8469-1667)
Ano2020
Volume19
Fascículo4
Páginas563-582
Data de publicação2020-06-08
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jlp.19089.hut
OpenAlexW3013653883
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas14

This article examines the interactional functions of the so-prefaced answer, when used by interviewees in news and other political discussion broadcasts. Using the methods of conversation analysis, based on a data corpus of recent broadcasts from British mainstream television, the analysis shows that the so-preface functions in a cluster of related ways within the question-answer discourse structure of the political news interview. Specifically, it is used to reset or reframe the prior question from a standpoint of epistemic authority, enabling the interviewee to answer on their terms rather than the interviewer’s

Cognitive reframing · Conversation · Conversation analysis · Epistemology · Interview · Linguistics · Mainstream · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Reset (finance · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Communication · Law · Philosophy · Social Psychology