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Author Weizman, Elda.

Title Positioning in media dialogue : negotiating roles in the news interview / Elda Weizman
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) : illustrations
Series Dialogue studies, 1875-1792 ; v. 3
Dialogue studies ; v. 3.
Contents Positioning in Media Dialogue; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Abstract; Acknowledgements; 1. The news interview; 2. The interactional construction of positions in discourse; 3. Positioning through challenge; II. Discourse patterns; 4. Interactional roles: Normative expectations and discourse norms; 5. Irony; 6. Framing challenge through terms of address; III. Case studies; 7. Individual intentions and collective purpose; 8. Negotiating social positioning: The interviewee's political role in context; 9. Intertwined positionings; Part IV. Conclusion
Summary This book proposes a socio-pragmatic exploration of the discursive practices used to construe and dynamically negotiate positions in news interviews. It starts with a discursive interpretation of 'positioning', 'role' and 'challenge', puts forward the relevance of a distinction between social and interactional roles, demonstrates how challenges bring to the fore the relevant roles and role-components of the participants, and shows that in news interviews speakers constantly position and re-position themselves and each other through discourse. The discussion draws on an empirical fine-grained an
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Discourse analysis
Interviewing in journalism.
interviews.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
Discourse analysis
Interviewing in journalism
Discourse analysis.
Interviewen.
Journalistiek.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789027290816
9027290814
9789027210203
9027210209
1282104829
9781282104822
Other Titles Positioning in media dialog
Negotiating roles in the news interview