Clayman2010

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Clayman2010
BibType ARTICLE
Key Clayman2010
Author(s) Steven E. Clayman
Title Address terms in the service of other actions: The case of news interview talk
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Year 2010
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Journal Discourse & Communication
Volume 4
Number 2
Pages 161–183
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DOI 10.1177/1750481310364330
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Abstract

In broadcast news interviews, interviewees will occasionally address the interviewer by name. As a method of establishing the directionality of talk, address terms are redundant in this institutional context because the normative question/answer activity structure and associated participation framework make the direction of address transparent and knowable in advance. But address terms can be deployed in the service of a variety of actions beyond addressing per se. Some of these involve disaligning actions such as topic shifts, non-conforming responses, and disagreements. Others involve the presentation of views as particularly significant or sincere. Address terms are thus a resource for managing certain expressive properties of talk, as well as its disalignment from prior talk.

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