A conversation analytic examination of alignment and disalignment in broadcast political news interviews

Conversation Analysis;political news interviews;political discourse;alignment;disalignment;question design;membership categorizations;code-switching;Arab-Israeli discourse;institutional talk;United Nations Media Stakeout

Shalash, Dana ; Koshik, Irene ; Koshik ; Irene

关键词: Conversation Analysis;    political news interviews;    political discourse;    alignment;    disalignment;    question design;    membership categorizations;    code-switching;    Arab-Israeli discourse;    institutional talk;    United Nations Media Stakeout;   

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美国|英语

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【 摘 要 】

The present study uses a Conversation Analytic (CA) framework to investigatehow interviewers and interviewees display political alignment or disalignment with eachother in news interviews. It looks at interviewers’ use and design of questions: negatedquestions; prefaced questions; disjunctive and prefaced questions. It, then, examines bothinterviewers’ and interviewees’ use of membership categorization devices as a means ofdisplaying even stronger alignment and disalignment. Use of ethnic and religiouscategories such as ‘brother’ and ‘friend’ are examined as well as the use of attributes suchas ‘terrorist.’ The final section of this thesis examines instances of code-switching todisplay alignment. Data used in this thesis are taken from video-taped interviews withambassadors concerned with the ‘Question of Palestine’ and were collected from theUnited Nations web archive. Taken as a whole, this thesis could be used to comparepolitical discourse in one culture/language with the discourses of other cultures. This typeof comparison is needed for better cross cultural media relations and diplomaticnegotiations, especially at international institutions such as the United Nations.