The institutional provision for silence
On the evasive nature of politicians’ answers to reporters’ questions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6084185 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin Mckenzie |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 443-463 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/jlp.4.3.06mck |
| OpenAlex | W2076466036 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 31 |
This paper explores how what is both appropriate to and excluded from consideration in a given episode of talk involving question-and-answers between a speaker and audience is the outcome of complex negotiation. We consider the details of such collaborative work in talk at a press conference with the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in discussion concerning his own and other countries’ military involvement in the Middle East. What gets excluded from consideration in the talk is itself established in dialogic interaction where the problematic nature of inferences potentially made relevant to the discussion is highlighted by reporters and brought to account by the Prime Minister. This feature of dialogue is related to recent scholarly debate regarding the place that context of controversy and the implicit availability of meaning should play in an analysis of talk, where what does not get said features as of equal importance as what does get said. We explore how the questions at issue in just such debates get taken up as participant concerns, pursued as a practical order of business in efforts where principal speakers work to foreclose the inferential potential otherwise opened up by audience scrutiny
Aesthetics · Context (archaeology · Dialogic · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Negotiation · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Prime minister · Principal (computer security · Public relations · Scrutiny · Silence · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · History · Law
Discourse and Cognition
Mikhail Bakhtin
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
Dialogism
Order in Court
Studies in ethnomethodology
Talk at work
The social actor
Conversation Analysis and the Claims of Naivety
Whose Text? Whose Context
Whose Terms? Whose Ordinariness? Rhetoric and Ideology in Conversation Analysis
Naivete vs Sophistication or Discipline vs Self-Indulgence
Reply to Wetherell
Narrative
When the medium become the message
From interview to conrontation
Discursive Psychology and the “New Racism”
Depicting a Liminal Position in Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and Membership Categorization Analysis
Prejudice, categorization and particularization
Toward Transformation in Social Knowledge
Positioning and Interpretative Repertoires
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
On Identifying Questions, Replies, and Non-Replies in Political Interviews
Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern
| Citations per year | 0.19 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2018 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |