Playing Discourse Games : the Political TV Interview in Great Britain and Poland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szczepańska-Włoch, Joanna, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Text - Meaning - Context: Cracow Studies in English Language, Literature and Culture ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television broadcasting of news--Political aspects--Great Britain.

Television broadcasting of news.

Television broadcasting of news--Political aspects--Poland.

Interviews--Political aspects--Great Britain.

Interviews.

Interviews--Political aspects--Poland.

Game-theoretical semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (434 pages)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2022.

Contents:

Cover

Series Information

Copyright Information

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Contents

Abbreviations

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

PART I THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS

CHAPTER 1: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

POLITICAL DISCOURSE

POLITICAL INTERVIEW

1.1 Discourse and discourse analysis

introduction

1.2 Michel Foucault

critical philosophical ponderings on discourse

1.2.1 Michel Foucault's archaeology and genealogy of texts/discourses

1.2.2 Discourse vs. language? Discourse and its rules

1.2.3 The "archaeological" period

1.2.4 The dis/continuities of discourse. The unities of discourse

1.2.5 The unities of discourse and discursive formations

1.2.6 The statement

1.2.7 The positivity of discourse

1.2.8 Foucault and power

1.2.9 Foucault and the political

1.3 Various approaches to discourse analysis

an overview

1.3.1 Discourse analysis and its forerunners

1.3.2 The model of strategic processing

1.3.3 The meaning of discourse in text studies

1.3.4 Discourse and the social sciences

1.3.5 Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)

1.3.5.1 Forerunners of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)

1.3.5.2 A three-dimensional conception of discourse by Fairclough

1.3.5.3 A framework for textual analysis

1.3.5.4 Discourse vs. ideology

1.3.5.5 Discourse vs. hegemony

1.3.5.6 Interdiscursivity

1.3.5.7 CDA recapitulated

1.3.5.8 Fairclough and political discourse

1.4 Political discourse

1.5 The political interview as a genre

1.5.1 The interview

1.5.2 The interview as a journalistic genre

1.5.3 The hierarchical organisation of the interview

1.5.4 The political interview

1.5.5 The news interview

1.5.6 News interviews vs. political interviews: conventional, adversarial or hybrid

1.5.7 The tabloidisation or conversationalisation of the news interviews

1.6 The approach to discourse applied in this study

CHAPTER 2: GAMES IN LANGUAGE

DEFINITION, TYPES, RULES

2.1 The "game" perspective

overview

2.2 A philosophical treatment of language and game

2.2.1 De Saussure and Wittgenstein in dispute

2.2.2 Wittgenstein's reflection on language-games

2.2.3 Lyotard's language-games

2.2.4 A modicum of the mathematical theory of games

2.2.5 The ins and outs of Hintikka's game-theoretical semantics

2.2.5.1 The concept of subgame

2.2.6 Dialogue games

a refinement of GTS?

2.2.7 Games of perfect and imperfect information

2.2.8 Language-games revisited

the Middle Path

2.3 Typology and rules

2.3.1 Typology of games

2.3.2 Rules of the game

2.3.2.1 Dialogue game rules

CHAPTER 3: THE STRATEGIC FOUNDATION OF LANGUAGE-GAMES

3.1 Game theoretical-semantics as a strategic perspective

3.2 Dialogic strategy and/or move

3.3 Questions as strategies in dialogue games

Notes:

3.4 Strategic manoeuvring in discourse dialectic.

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363186888X

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