Achieving discourse truth in doing affiliated news interviews
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7477336 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Debing Feng (0000-0001-5177-8697, Hangzhou Normal University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 2400-2416 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14648849211008090 |
| OpenAlex | W3154753374 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 29 |
In affiliated news interviews, interviewees are both reporters and commentators, thus often caught in the dilemma of whether to interpret or report. Based on Stephen J. A. Ward’s theory of pragmatic objectivity, this article responds to this question by proposing a concept of discourse truth and applying it to the analysis of affiliated news interviews collected from BBC News at Ten. It is found that journalists in such interviews tend to achieve a sense of discourse truth through three primary discourse practices, including achieving journalistic authority, emphasizing authenticity of news and displaying journalistic neutrality. These practices are in turn realized through a variety of discourse strategies such as identity credentials, personalization, modality, third-party attribution and metadiscourse expressions. The results show that objectivity can be maintained through discourse truth, even when news is interpreted. Discourse truth can reflect the authenticity of talk to some extent. It is, however, not the fact itself, but the reality constructed in the news
Attribution · Dilemma · Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Linguistics · Metadiscourse · Neutrality · Objectivity (philosophy · Personalization · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Philosophy · Social Psychology
Talking Voices
The News Interview
Talk in Action
Humble servants of the discipline? Self-mention in research articles
Talk at work
Metadiscourse in Academic Writing
You'll need a miracle to win this election” (J. Paxman 2005)
Friending” Journalists on Social Media
Broadcast news, the live ‘two-way’ and the case of Andrew Gilligan
The Discourse of Broadcast News
The Discourse of the Broadcast News Interview
Achieving journalistic authority through narrative
Scientific objectivity in journalism? How journalists and academics define objectivity, assess its attainability, and rate its desirability
Hybridisation, personalisation and tribuneship in the political interview
Hardballs and softballs
Witnessing
Authenticating Talk
Authenticity and Experience
Defining `Authentic Talk
What is Authenticity
The Voice of Authority
Maintaining neutrality in dispute mediation
A turn-taking system for British news interviews
Language style as audience design
Displaying Neutrality in Television News Interviews
Objectivity as Strategic Ritual
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |