| Description |
xi, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Pragmatics & beyond ; VII:4 |
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Pragmatics & beyond ; no. 7: 4 |
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Pragmatics & beyond ; VII:4
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Pragmatics & beyond ; no. 7: 4
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| Contents |
NEWS INTERVIEWS: A PRAGMALINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION NOTATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1 Aim and Scope; 1.2 The Corpus; 1.3 Problems of Definition; 1.3.1 Medium; 1.3.2 Participants; 1.3.3 Topic-coherence; 1.3.4 Form; 1.4 Four Methods of Analysis; 1.4.1 Speech act theory; 1.4.2 Ethnomethodology; 1.4.3 Theory of speech act sequencing; 1.4.4 Conversational inference; 2. ASPECTS OF DURATION; 2.1 Quantificational Studies of Conversation; 2.2 The "Matarazzo Effect" in News Interviews |
| Summary |
Jucker endeavors to test pragmatic concepts (such as Grice's principles of conversational inference) by applying them to concrete data. This application leads to suggestions for various modifications in the available pragmatic methodology. While pursuing this theoretical goal, he makes a significant contribution to descriptive pragmatics by offering a detailed picture of linguistically relevant aspects of news interviews, which show communicative behavior in 'laboratory conditions' where as many influencing factors as possible are kept stable while the influence of one specific factor at a tim |
| Notes |
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Zürich, 1986 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [185]-195 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
Center for Research Libraries |
| Subject |
Interviewing in journalism.
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Pragmatics.
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Speech acts (Linguistics)
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| Genre/Form |
Academic theses.
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| LC no. |
86026371 |
| ISBN |
1556190034 (U.S. : pbk. : alk. paper) |
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