Raymond-etal2019

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Raymond-etal2019
BibType ARTICLE
Key Raymond-etal2019
Author(s) Chase Wesley Raymond, Marissa Caldwell, Lisa Mikesell, Innhwa Park, Nicholas Williams
Title Turn-taking and the structural legitimization of bias: The case of the Ford-Kavanaugh hearing by the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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Tag(s) EMCA, Turn-taking, Overall structural organization, Institutional talk, Bias, Impartiality
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Year 2019
Language English
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Journal Language & Communication
Volume 69
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Pages 97-114
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DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2019.09.002
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Abstract

This paper offers an analysis of the Ford-Kavanaugh hearing by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, with particular attention to the role of the Committee chairperson within this procedural infrastructure—an infrastructure that, we argue, systematically provides for and thereby implicitly legitimizes the insertion of bias in its proceedings, while nonetheless orienting to an ideology of fairness based on time limits for speaking. Focusing on the linguistic and interactional mechanisms through which chairpersons may use the ‘interstitial spaces’ that emerge within such hearings, we conclude that the structural privileges afforded to partisan chairpersons can compromise the Committee's ability to reach impartial and unbiased conclusions in its investigations, and we offer recommendations with regard to how this might be resolved.

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