Hutchby2020
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Hutchby2020 |
| Author(s) | Ian Hutchby |
| Title | “So my position is…” So-prefaced answers and epistemic authority in British news interviews |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Evasion, Prefacing, Turn-initial particles, News interviews, Epistemics |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Journal of Language and Politics |
| Volume | 19 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 563–582 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/jlp.19089.hut |
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Abstract
This article examines the interactional functions of the so-prefaced answer, when used by interviewees in news and other political discussion broadcasts. Using the methods of conversation analysis, based on a data corpus of recent broadcasts from British mainstream television, the analysis shows that the so-preface functions in a cluster of related ways within the question-answer discourse structure of the political news interview. Specifically, it is used to reset or reframe the prior question from a standpoint of epistemic authority, enabling the interviewee to answer on their terms rather than the interviewer’s.
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