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consideration in a given episode of talk involving question-and-answers  
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between a speaker and audience is the outcome of complex negotiation. We  
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|Abstract=This paper explores how what is both appropriate to and excluded from consideration in a given episode of talk involving question-and-answers between a speaker and audience is the outcome of complex negotiation. We consider the details of such collaborative work in talk at a press conference with the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in discussion concerning his own and other countries’ military involvement in the Middle East. What gets excluded from consideration in the talk is itself established in dialogic interaction where the problematic nature of inferences potentially made relevant to the discussion is highlighted by reporters and brought to account by the Prime Minister. This feature of dialogue is related to recent scholarly debate regarding the place that context of controversy and the implicit availability of meaning should play in an analysis of talk, where what does not get said features as of equal importance as what does get said. We explore how the questions at issue in just such debates get taken up as participant concerns, pursued as a practical order of business in efforts where principal speakers work to foreclose the inferential potential otherwise opened up by audience scrutiny.
consider the details of such collaborative work in talk at a press conference  
 
with the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in discussion concerning his  
 
own and other countries’ military involvement in the Middle East. What gets  
 
excluded from consideration in the talk is itself established in dialogic inter-
 
action where the problematic nature of inferences potentially made relevant  
 
to the discussion is highlighted by reporters and brought to account by the  
 
Prime Minister. Tis feature of dialogue is related to recent scholarly debate  
 
regarding the place that context of controversy and the implicit availability  
 
of meaning should play in an analysis of talk, where what does not get said  
 
features as of equal importance as what does get said. We explore how the  
 
questions at issue in just such debates get taken up as participant concerns,  
 
pursued as a practical order of business in efforts where principal speakers  
 
work to foreclose the inferential potential otherwise opened up by audience  
 
scrutiny.
 
 
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McKenzie2005
BibType ARTICLE
Key McKenzie2005
Author(s) Kevin McKenzie
Title The institutional provision for silence: on the evasive nature of politicians’ answers to reporters’ questions
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Tag(s) EMCA, dialogue, context, collaboration, evasive rhetoric, social structure
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Year 2005
Language English
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Journal Journal of Language and Politics
Volume 4
Number 3
Pages 443–463
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DOI 10.1075/jlp.4.3.06mck
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Abstract

This paper explores how what is both appropriate to and excluded from consideration in a given episode of talk involving question-and-answers between a speaker and audience is the outcome of complex negotiation. We consider the details of such collaborative work in talk at a press conference with the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in discussion concerning his own and other countries’ military involvement in the Middle East. What gets excluded from consideration in the talk is itself established in dialogic interaction where the problematic nature of inferences potentially made relevant to the discussion is highlighted by reporters and brought to account by the Prime Minister. This feature of dialogue is related to recent scholarly debate regarding the place that context of controversy and the implicit availability of meaning should play in an analysis of talk, where what does not get said features as of equal importance as what does get said. We explore how the questions at issue in just such debates get taken up as participant concerns, pursued as a practical order of business in efforts where principal speakers work to foreclose the inferential potential otherwise opened up by audience scrutiny.

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