Llewellyn2011a
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Llewellyn2011a |
| Author(s) | Nick Llewellyn, Carly W. Butler |
| Title | Walking out on air |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, News interviews, Conversation Analysis |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Journal | Research on Language & Social Interaction |
| Volume | 44 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 44-64 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2011.544128 |
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Abstract
This article explores walkouts from news interviews. The majority of these exhibit recurrent interactional features, which are described. Latent hostility becomes manifest at the very moment of the walkout. Just seconds before, there are few clues of the interviewee's forthcoming departure. Walkouts can thus appear as “outbursts.” Cases where hostilities remain almost entirely latent are then considered, where interviewees establish noncomplaining accounts for their departure. Walkouts might seem the ultimate violation of a setting that demands that interviewees stay in place and respond to negative questioning with tact. But in their dispassionate and muted character, walkouts supply perhaps the strongest evidence of a setting that curtails the expression of personal anger and annoyance.
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