The Political Interview
Broadcast Talk in the Interactional Combat Zone- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2022
Summary
The landscape of broadcast news media is constantly changing, partly under the influence of changing technology but also due to changes in the social role of television journalism. The Political Interview: Broadcast Talk in the Interactional Combat Zone takes a sociological and linguistic approach to examining these changes, focusing on the discourse practices that are associated with them. Tracing contemporary developments in the ways that interviews with politicians are conducted in a range of televised formats, Ian Hutchby analyzes increasing tendencies toward conflictual interactions that may fundamentally impact the nature of political communication and the role of news interviews in the democratic process. Training the sharp analytical lens of conversation analysis on the actual discourse of live broadcast news, Hutchby’s book is both timely—addressing academic and populist concerns about infotainment, dumbing down, and political mistrust among the electorate—and relevant to a range of specialists in sociolinguistics, communication studies, political studies, journalism and media studies, and sociology.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2022
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-7936-4009-3
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-7936-4010-9
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 188
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgements No access
- Chapter One The Political News Interview in Context No access Pages 1 - 16
- Chapter Two Analyzing Interviews as Arenas of Language Use No access Pages 17 - 30
- Chapter Three Total Mediatization A Media Ecology of the Broadcast Political Interview No access Pages 31 - 50
- Chapter Four Rules of Engagement The Conventional Political Interview No access Pages 51 - 72
- Chapter Five “It’s a Simple Question” The Adversarial Political Interview No access Pages 73 - 96
- Chapter Six “So My Position Is . . .” Explanatory Answers and Agenda Contests No access Pages 97 - 114
- Chapter Seven Opinion, Emotion, and Personalization in the Hybrid Political Interview No access Pages 115 - 140
- Chapter Eight Tribuneship, Objectivity, and the Public Interest No access Pages 141 - 158
- Chapter Nine The Political Interview in an Opinionated World Some Concluding Reflections No access Pages 159 - 168
- Appendix Glossary of Transcription Symbols No access Pages 169 - 172
- References No access Pages 173 - 182
- Index No access Pages 183 - 186
- About the Author No access Pages 187 - 188





