The shaping of Gorbachev: On framing in an interpreter-mediated talk-show interview

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Wadensjö
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Mikhail Gorbachev ◽  
Hybrid Form ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
Local Organization ◽  
Head Of State ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Opening And Closing ◽  
News Interview

AbstractThis paper examines a televised interview that BBC journalist and show host Clive Anderson conducted with the former head of state of the dissolved USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, assisted by the interpreter Pavel Palazchenko. The paper explores this interview, focusing on its opening and closing, its local organization, and the involvement of the audience. Applying conversation analysis, the paper traces the generic belonging of current talk and looks into a variety of features that shaped the image of Gorbachev as a television personality in British TV. It demonstrates how Gorbachev and Anderson moved between and played with a ‘talk show interview’ and a ‘news interview’ framing of interaction. The analysis demonstrates how the encounter helped portray Gorbachev as a witty and adequate performer, irrespective of the fact that he did not speak English—the language of the broadcast and of the viewers. This was due to what he said, but no less to how he performed, and not least to his way of utilizing the assistance of the highly skilled interpreter, and also, I will argue, to the fact that the interview allowed him to take part in a shared game of entertainment, in a genuinely hybrid form of talk.

scholarly journals A Conversation Analysis on the Interview between Agnez Monica and Host in “Build Talk Show”

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
T. Thyrhaya Zein ◽  
Ronobel Boston Silalahi ◽  
Muhammad Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Preference Organization ◽  
Turn Taking ◽  
Conversational Interactions ◽  
Opening And Closing

The aim of the study is to determine how the aspects of conversational interactions are realized in the conversation. The researcher collects and analyzes data by applied qualitative content analysis through documentation technique. The data of this study were the utterances while the source of data is a video of the interview between the interviewer (Kevan Kenney) and the interviewee (Agnez Monica a.k.a Agnez Mo) in Build Talk Show. The source of the data was downloaded from the official Youtube channel of Build Talk Show with a duration of 27:03 minutes. The data analysis is based on the theory of conversation analysis proposed by Paltridge. The results of this study show that the interviewer (Kevan Kenney) employed the aspects of conversational interactions in asking and responding to the questions of the interviewee. The aspects of conversational interactions such as opening conversation, adjacency pairs, preference organization, turn taking, and feedback were used. Where as, closing conversation and repair categories were not used by interviewer throughout the conversation. On the other hand, the interviewee used Turn Taking, Feedback and Repair, but Opening and Closing Conversation, Adjacency Pairs, and Preference Organization were not used by the interviewee throughout the conversation. So, five of seven aspects of conversational interactions in conversation are applied. Those aspects of conversational interactions are realized in this conversation because it is the standard in conversation, and the interviewer and interviewee applied the aspects of conversational interactions in order to seek the information from the interviewee, to give the clarification of the issues and make a good communication in that conversation.

scholarly journals The Illocutionary Profile of Text Units with Purpose Semantics in the Aspect of Their Modeling and Interpretation

2021 ◽  
Vol 163 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-52
Author(s):  
L.V. Voronina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Linguistic Modeling ◽  
Spoken Interaction

The illocutionary complex that determines the pragmatic meaning of text units with purpose semantics as part of the question-answer dialogue was analyzed. Using the methods of conversation analysis, introspection, linguistic modeling and observation, a multifarious analysis of the adjacent pairs in the political interview and talk show fragments was carried out. The factors that define the generation of purpose-related judgments and the choice of indirect ways to convey the communicative intentions of the addresser were singled out, as well as the aspects that are important for understanding the perceived content by the addressee. The organization of the communicative continuum within the framework of interaction was investigated. The functionality of the pragmatic context (the background of spoken interaction) was revealed. The factors influencing the quality of the illocutionary profile of text units (clarity/blur) as it is perceived and interpreted by the addressee were established. The signals of the communicative intentions generated by the addresser were considered. The choice of spoken response in the situations of harsh pressure was discussed. It was demonstrated that the pragmatic context plays a leading role in perceiving of the illocutionary complex during the communicative interaction.

Open Hand Prone as a resource in multimodal claims to interruption

Gesture ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antti Kamunen
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Local Organization ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Turn Taking ◽  
Gesture Studies

Abstract This paper examines the Open Hand Prone ‘vertical palm’ as a resource for participants in conversation for displaying their treatment of a co-participant’s – or their own – turn/action as interruptive. Through this practice participants can manage turn-taking by making it relevant for the co-participant to stop talking. The data for this study consist of video-recorded conversations in English and Finnish from domestic and institutional settings, as well as broadcast talk. Using multimodal conversation analysis, this study shows that the gesture occurs in situations involving overlapping/competitive talk or incompatible embodied activities that somehow affect the progressivity of the ongoing talk. This paper complements previous research on gesture studies and interaction by investigating the function these gestures take in stopping/interrupting a co-participant’s turn-at-talk across multiple settings, and by studying how the gesture functions as a part of a practice which has direct social consequences on the local organization of turn-taking.

“So my position is…”

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-582
Author(s):  
Ian Hutchby
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Discourse Structure ◽  
The Political ◽  
Epistemic Authority ◽  
Political Discussion ◽  
Political News ◽  
Interactional Functions ◽  
News Interview

Abstract This article examines the interactional functions of the so-prefaced answer, when used by interviewees in news and other political discussion broadcasts. Using the methods of conversation analysis, based on a data corpus of recent broadcasts from British mainstream television, the analysis shows that the so-preface functions in a cluster of related ways within the question-answer discourse structure of the political news interview. Specifically, it is used to reset or reframe the prior question from a standpoint of epistemic authority, enabling the interviewee to answer on their terms rather than the interviewer’s.

The disaffiliative use of ‘did you know’ questions in Arabic news interviews: The case of Aljazeera’s ‘The Opposite Direction’

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 590-609
Author(s):  
Dana Shalash
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Opposite Direction ◽  
Analytic Method ◽  
Institutional Affiliation ◽  
Standard Arabic ◽  
Specific Program ◽  
Political Views ◽  
New Information ◽  
Discursive Strategy ◽  
News Interview

This article studies the use of ‘hal taʔlaam’ (‘did you know’, hereafter) questions by the interviewer (IR) as a discursive strategy to block the interviewees’ (IEs’) agenda and stance in Aljazeera’s ‘The Opposite Direction’, a weekly news interview program that broadcasts live in Arabic on Aljazeera. The show has been on the air since Aljazeera’s inception, in the mid 1990s. The show hosts two guests with opposing political views, who are pitted against each other in a heated discussion as they represent and defend their own political and institutional affiliation. This article shows how IR uses ‘did you know’ questions to express adversarialness with his interviewees. The article argues that IR uses this type of questioning as an agenda blocking practice that the IR orients to as confrontational. The dataset examined in this article shows that ‘did you know’ questions do not provide any new information, nor does it seem to expect a response from the addressee. In fact, they are regularly used by the IR in this specific program to provide an account for previous turns that did not receive the desired response from the IE. They are lengthy, said in clear, loud Standard Arabic, and they typically embed ‘hostile presuppositions’ and confrontational messages. For the analysis presented here, 20, 50-minute episodes from ‘The Opposite Direction’ are examined following Conversation Analysis as the analytic method.

scholarly journals Managing Agenda Setting in Pakistani Political TalkShows: A Functional Analysis of Interruptions

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (I) ◽  
pp. 43-54
Author(s):  
Saira Asghar Khan ◽  
Samina Amin Qadir ◽  
Rizwan Aftab
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Functional Performance ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political News ◽  
The Public ◽  
Qualitative Exploration ◽  
News Interview ◽  
Level Of Analysis ◽  
News Interviews

This study aims to investigate the functional performance of interruptions in political news interviews. The selected sample for this study consists of approximately 200 minutes of recordings of political news interviews from the public state owned channel PTV World. The methodological framework for this study comes from Conversation Analysis. The analytical framework for the analysis has been developed from a study of literature pertaining to interruptions. At the initial level of analysis all interruptions are identified for their function (cooperative, disruptive and neutral), finally a qualitative exploration is carried out to see what purpose these serve in the specific format of news interviews. The findings reveal that a significant number of interruptions (80%) are of the disruptive nature. This result implicates that the interruptions by anchor are being used for controlling talk and significantly setting the agenda of the discussion within the political news interview and impacting the political view of the audience.

scholarly journals Conversation Analysis Of Indonesia Lawyers Club Talk Show Episode “Negara Paceklik, Perokok Dicekik?”

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-150
Author(s):  
Agus Ganjar Runtiko
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Cooperative Principle ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
Live Broadcast ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
Cooperative Principles

This study aims is to identifying the structure of conversation and application of cooperative principle as a prerequisite for good conversation in the discussion on Indonesia Lawyers Club (ILC) talk show episode "Negara Paceklik, Perokok Dicekik?" Which aired on August 23, 2016 at TVOne. The data analyzed by using conversation principles as suggested by D. Hymes in the ethnography of speaking, and cooperative principles as suggested by H.P. Grice. This research reveals that as a live broadcast event, ILC talk show episode "Negara Paceklik, Perokok Dicekik?" has form a good structure and meet SPEAKING scheme. However, in terms of the cooperative principle, ILC talk show still needs an evaluation. This study confirms Garfinkel concepts about creativity of human actors, who in the context of ILC conversation are modifying goals, rules, structure and style, also effects of the discussion according to his interests.

scholarly journals Conversation Analysis of Interruption Found In The Indonesia Lawyers Club

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 558
Author(s):  
Diana Rahma Putri ◽  
Ridwan Hanafiah ◽  
Muhizar Muchtar
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This thesis is a study about types of interruption and functions of interruption in a television talk show named Indonesia Lawyers Club. This study aims to identify the types of interruption found in the Indonesia Lawyers Club. The main theory used in supporting this study is a theory of types of interruption proposed by Ferguson (1977). In conducting this study, the researcher used a descriptive qualitative method. The results of this study found that there are four types of interruption found in the talk show. They are simple interruption (SI), overlap interruption (OI), Butting-in interruption (BI) and silent interruption (SLI). OI is the most dominant types of interruption found in the data. There are 9 occurrences of OI (36%), 8 occurrences of SI (32%), 5 occurrences of BI (20%) and 3 occurrences of SLI (12%).

scholarly journals THE INTERRUPTION USED BY THE HOST AND GUESTS IN SARAH SECHAN TALK SHOW ON NET TV

LINGUISTICA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 267
Author(s):  
ANNISA ANGGIA AYU MAGHFIRO ◽  
Meisuri Meisuri ◽  
Muhammad Natsir
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Common Reason ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
The Common

This research aims to identify the types and reasons of interruption uttered by host and the guests in Sarah Sechan talk show. To answer the objectives of the research, the researcher used conversation analysis approach. The data were the utterances that contain the interruption from the conversation in Sarah Secham Talk Show Net TV. The findings showed that there were four types of interruption employed by the host and guests, i.e. simple interruption, overlap interruption, silent interruption and butting-in interruption. From 56 data found in the talk show, simple interruption had the biggest number of occurrence with 37.50%. Simple interruption was the most appearing type in this talk show because each guest in every episode mainly gives his/her floor to the interrupter, which is the host, Sarah sechan even though his/her utterance was disrupted. The smallest number of interruption’s type was butting-in interruption with only 5.35%. The host or the guests seldom do butting-in interruption because they give a chance to the interrupter to deliver his/her message. To decide the reason of interruption, the writer looked at the context of the discussion between the host and the guests. The common reason was Completing with 35.71% and the other reason was showing agreement, seeking clarification, correcting, breaking up, and reject some point. From all of this reason the writer conclude that the interruptions in this talk-show were not violation. Keywords: conversation analysis; interruptionn; Sarah Sechan Talk

scholarly journals A Conversation Analysis of Adjacency Pairs in the Ellen DeGeneres’s Talk Show with Malala Yousafzai

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-40
Author(s):  
Trihartina Tampubolon
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Natural Conversation ◽  
Support Research

This research aims to find out the application of the types of adjacency pairs in a conversation script “Malala Yousafzai” in talk show of Ellen DeGeneres. The writers used the conversation analysis approach to support research in analyzing data. Conversation analysis (CA) is the natural conversation that has participants two or more. Adjacency pairs is paired utterances by two different speakers. The method used is qualitative descriptive. The writer took the data from the “Malala Yousafzai” conversation script on Ellen DeGeneres’s talk show. The data containing video and script, the duration is 8:09 minutes. This video is downloaded from http://www.eamus.it/videos/malala-at-ellens.htm. The writer analyzed the data by reading the script of the conversation and then classified the data according to the types of adjacency pairs. And then drawn conclusion. Adjacency pairs creates an obvious meaning in social interaction through conversation. Adjacency pairs has types and patterns. The pattern determines the meaning being delivered and minimize the misunderstanding between participants. And help people understand what people want to make particular language choices and what people mean. There are six types of the adjacency pairs found in “Malala Yousafzai” conversation script in Ellen DeGeneres’s talk show.

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