Positioning in media dialogue : negotiating roles in the news interview / Elda Weizman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weizman, Elda.

Series:

Dialogue studies ; v. 3.

Dialogue studies, 1875-1792 ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Interviewing in journalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book proposes a socio-pragmatic exploration of the discursive practices used to construe and dynamically negotiate positions in news interviews. It starts with a discursive interpretation of 'positioning', 'role' and 'challenge', puts forward the relevance of a distinction between social and interactional roles, demonstrates how challenges bring to the fore the relevant roles and role-components of the participants, and shows that in news interviews speakers constantly position and re-position themselves and each other through discourse.The discussion draws on an empirical fine-grained analysis of a 24-hour corpus of news interviews on Israeli television and a corpus of media references. The author postulates a discrepancy between interlocutors' normative expectations, which presuppose an asymmetrical division of labor, on the one hand, and real-life practice, which exhibits partial symmetry in speakers' selection of discourse patterns as well as reciprocity in the use of challenge strategies, on the other. Special attention is given to irony and terms of address, which are shown to act as the center-points of satellite challenge strategies, geared as an ensemble toward the co-construction of reciprocal positioning. The analysis of three case studies further sheds light on the negotiations of intertwined positionings in context.

Contents:

Positioning in Media Dialogue

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Table of contents

Abstract

Acknowledgements

1. The news interview

1.1 Approaches to the study of news interviews

1.2 Introducing the corpus

1.3 Presentation and transcription conventions

2. The interactional construction of positions in discourse

2.1 Positioning

2.2 Positioning and role

2.3 Role and identity

2.3.1 Role, identity, status: A sociological orientation

2.3.2 Membership categories and identity: Discourse orientation

2.4 The perception of role and identity in media talk

2.5 Multiplicity of roles

2.6 Two role types: Social and interactional

2.7 "Making relevant" in and through discourse

3. Positioning through challenge

3.1 Defining challenge

3.2 Two challenge-types

3.3 Who challenges whom?

3.4 Challenge potential

3.5 Summary

II. Discourse patterns

4. Interactional roles: Normative expectations and discourse norms

4.1 Preliminaries

4.2 Normative expectations

4.3 Discourse norms

4.4 Rights and obligations: A case of wishful thinking

4.5 Conversationalisation and positioning

5. Irony

5.1 Preliminaries

5.2 Cues and clues for ironic interpretation

5.3 Ironists and targets

5.3.1 Interviewers target interviewees

5.3.2 Interviewees target a third party

5.4 The locus of irony: Interactional role

5.5 Does irony reduce threat to face or enhance it?

6. Framing challenge through terms of address

6.1 Preliminaries

6.2 Explicit other-positioning: Addresses and references in the openings and closings

6.3 Framing conflict and challenge: Addresses in mid-position

6.3.1 Interactional positioning through deference

6.3.2 Framing challenge through solidarity

6.4 Positioning through terms of address

III. Case studies.

7. Individual intentions and collective purpose

7.1 Ritual blows of peace-making: Individual intentions and collective purpose

7.2 Individual intentions: Challenge and conflict

7.2.1 Interviewee's loop-responses

7.2.2 Meta-comments and interruptions

7.2.3 Reciprocal irony

7.2.4 Exchanging last blows: The closing

7.3 Collective direction: Collaboration and joint endeavor

8. Negotiating social positioning: The interviewee's political role in context

9. Intertwined positionings

9.1 Interactional co-operation: Turns 01-10

9.2 Reciprocal adversative positioning: Turns 11-30

9.3 Reciprocal challenges at their peak

9.4 Summary

Part IV. Conclusion

1. Two methodological comments

1.1 Methodology and findings: A two-way street

1.2 Units of analysis

2. Positioning, role and challenge: An interactional view

3. The discursive nature of positioning

4. News interviews in the Israeli context

4.1 Symmetry and reciprocity

4.2 High informativeness

5. Desideratum

References

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Author index

Subject index

The series Dialogue Studies.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612104824

9781282104822

1282104829

9789027290816

9027290814

OCLC:

316803070