Positioning in media dialogue negotiating roles in the news interview - Weizman, Elda (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2008)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and indexes
Positioning in Media Dialogue; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Abstract; Acknowledgements; 1. The news interview; 2. The interactional construction of positions in discourse; 3. Positioning through challenge; II. Discourse patterns; 4. Interactional roles: Normative expectations and discourse norms; 5. Irony; 6. Framing challenge through terms of address; III. Case studies; 7. Individual intentions and collective purpose; 8. Negotiating social positioning: The interviewee's political role in context; 9. Intertwined positionings; Part IV. Conclusion
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 an