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Clayman2001
BibType ARTICLE
Key Clayman2001
Author(s) Steven E. Clayman
Title Answers and evasions
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Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Interview, News interviews, Questions and answers, Interrogations, Broadcast, Political communication
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Year 2001
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Journal Language in Society
Volume 30
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Pages 403-442
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Abstract

This article provides an overview of the dynamics of answering and resisting or evading questions in broadcast news interviews. After a preliminary examination of the practices through which answers are recognizably constructed, the analysis turns to the practices through which interviewees manage responses that resist the agenda of an interviewer's question. When resisting overtly, interviewees engage in various forms of “damage control.” When resisting covertly, interviewees take steps to render the resistance less conspicuous. Both sets of practices facilitate resistant responses by reducing the negative consequences that might otherwise follow. Such practices demonstrate that, although interviewees have developed practices for resisting questions, the norm of answering remains a salient feature of the contemporary broadcast news interview.

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