Clayman2015
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Clayman2015 |
| Author(s) | Steven Clayman |
| Title | Broadcast news interviews |
| Editor(s) | Karen Tracy, Cornelia Ilie, Todd Sandel |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, conversation analysis, journalism, broadcast, mass media, objectivity, political communication |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
| Year | 2015 |
| Language | English |
| City | London |
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| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118611463.wbielsi113 |
| ISBN | 9781118611463 |
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| Howpublished | |
| Book title | The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction |
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Abstract
The broadcast news interview is a genre of broadcast talk characterized by a distinctive confluence of participants, subject matter, and interactional form. In a prototypical news interview, the interviewer acts as a professional journalist rather than as a partisan commentator or celebrity entertainer. Interviewees are public officials, experts, or others whose actions or views are newsworthy. The discussion focuses on current events and is 'formal' rather than 'conversational' in character. This article reviews the discursive and interactional practices characteristic of broadcast news interviews, including the turn-taking system that organizes such talk, the relevance of the audience, practices of questioning geared to the norms of neutralism and adversarialness, the boundary conditions for such norms, practices of answering associated with responsiveness and resistance, and various interview genres.
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