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.

“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.

Political transparency matters: Citizens challenging officials via ‘have you planned X’-type questions

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 521-535
Author(s):  
Nynke van Schepen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Interactional Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
The Public

This article examines how citizens, invited to ask questions in public plenary consultation meetings within a participatory democracy procedure in urban planning in France, point at something that has not been mentioned in the public debate, thereby challenging the recipient. More specifically, this article is interested in studying, deploying the analytical framework offered by Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, a particular French linguistic turn design adopted by the citizens: variations of ‘have you planned X?’. These interrogatives are concerned with an aspect of the procedure the citizens present as relevant, but which has not been mentioned by the professionals. By adopting a turn format that requests confirmation, citizens display caution to not attribute blame overtly to the recipient for this perceived lack. At the same time, these questions make visible how citizens orient to public and political transparency as a social and political standard the recipients are obliged to uphold.

Question design and the construction of populist stances in political news interviews

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 672-689
Author(s):  
Joanna Thornborrow ◽  
Mats Ekström ◽  
Marianna Patrona
Keyword(s):  
Moral Order ◽  
Broadcast News ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Political News ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Journalistic Practice ◽  
News Interviews

This paper focuses on the relationship between journalism and right wing populist discourses in the context of broadcast news interviews. We analyse a specific feature of question design in which the public is invoked as a source of opinionated positions in adversarial interviewing. Analysing data from a range of socio-political contexts, we identify a shift in adversarial questioning along a scale of ‘soft’ populism, that is the attribution of views and concerns to a generic public ‘in crisis’, to ‘hard’ populism, where interviewers construct hypothetical scenarios in which populist positions are attributed to ‘some people’. We argue that the democratic role of journalists as public watchdogs, holding politicians and public figures accountable on behalf of the public, is challenged by this normalisation of populist moral order discourses in a routine journalistic practice, both drawing on and contributing to the propagation of populist agendas and anti-democratic populist rhetoric.

Moral Discrepancy and Political Discourse: Accountability and the Allocation of Blame in a Political News Interview

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Housley ◽  
Richard Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Social Organisation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political News ◽  
Structure And Agency ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Ethics ◽  
The Uk ◽  
News Interview

During the course of this article we intend to explore some issues surrounding government policy and actions and the moral organisation of political discourse surrounding the recent enquiry into the BSE crisis and the publication of the Phillips Report in the UK. More specifically, we wish to develop the concept of moral discrepancy and it's use in politically accountable settings, in this case the political interview. The paper, through the use of membership categorisation analysis, explores issues surrounding the social organisation of interview settings, the discursive management of policy decisions and ‘bureaucratic mistakes’ and the allocation of blame in situated media/political formats. The paper then relates these issues to notions of democracy-in-action, public ethics and the respecification of structure and agency as a members phenomenon.

scholarly journals Gender-Based Pragmatic Study of Hedging Devices in Selected Political News Interview of Donald Trumph and Hillary Clinton

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-87
Author(s):  
Nurmala Ohorella
Keyword(s):  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Political News ◽  
Modal Auxiliaries ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Lack Of Commitment ◽  
News Interview ◽  
Pragmatic Study ◽  
News Interviews

This research aimed to identify the linguistic items which act as hedges in political news interviews in relation to politicians’ gender, as well as to examine the pragmatic functions of these devices. Two transcripts of political news interviews of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trumph, randomly selected from CNN official website (see Appendix), were analyzed adopting Salager-Meyer’s (1997) taxonomy. The study revealed that the frequent used of hedging devices in the two interviews are modal auxiliaries, if clause, and introductory phrase. The most frequently used hedging device subcategory are the modal auxiliary “can”, “will”, “would”, and “should”. Whilst the used introductory phrase are “l think”, “l believe”, “l guess”, “as l said”, and “my understanding is that..”. The findings suggest that these hedging devices fulfill several pragmatic functions. Hedging devices is used by the two politicians to express indirectness, politeness, lack of commitment and probability. In relation to gender, the findings also reveal that the spread of hedging of the two politicians are similar

scholarly journals Politics, opinion and controvesy: Gazeta do Povo´s strategies on Facebook and the relation with the readers

Intexto ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 226-250
Author(s):  
Camilla Quesada Tavares ◽  
Michele Goulart Massuchin
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Content Distribution ◽  
The Political ◽  
Quantitative Content Analysis ◽  
Political News ◽  
The Public ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

This paper aims to identify the way Gazeta do Povo has used Facebook as a content distribution platform. After the restructuring of the journal in June 2017, the social network has been shown to be an important channel for the dissemination of the material produced by the communication vehicle. So the research seeks to understand the logic of using the tool, based on the most explored themes, as well as the genre and the coverage of the posts, relating these characteristics to the return in relation to the number of likes, comments and sharing. The research analyzes the destined space to the political questions and those subjects classified as controversial, identifying how they present themselves in the coverage from the journalistic genre. The methodology used is the quantitative content analysis, and the variables were created from Larsson (2016) and Weber (2014), for the categorization of 820 posts carried out during 15 days of coverage through Facebook fanpage. The results indicate that the vehicle chooses to post policy news and that the public tends to comment more on controversial political news.

Assessments and the social construction of expertise in political TV interviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arja Piirainen-Marsh ◽  
Heidi Jauni
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Political News ◽  
Institutional Goals ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
The Social ◽  
News Interview ◽  
News Interviews

AbstractThis paper investigates how rights to knowledge and opinion are negotiated through assessments embedded in questioning sequences in political news interviews. The focus is on describing how assessments index epistemic positions and evaluative stances embedded in the turns through which the institutional goals of the interview are achieved. The analysis shows how assessments combine with other turn-constructional resources to build a critical or opposing position toward the interviewee's actions, deeds, status, views, or attitudes. It also sheds light on the strategies through which interviewees (IE) engage with and resist the positions displayed by interviewers (IR). Findings show that in the data corpus interviewers often challenge the IE through unmitigated assertions of “facts,” while matters of opinion and assessment of the IE involve footing shifts in the form of citations and quoting written texts. The paper adds to existing research on the tensions in news interview talk; the need to present newsworthy information and hold public figures to account while adhering to the norm of factual, neutral reporting.

scholarly journals Explaining the Changes in Brazilian Foreign Policy towards South America under Michel Temer’s Administration (2016-2018): The Return to the Logic of Open Regionalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-513
Author(s):  
Leandro Wolpert dos Santos ◽  
André Pimentel Ferreira Leão ◽  
Jonathan Raphael Vieira da Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
South America ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Alternatives ◽  
Public Policy Analysis ◽  
Political Dispute

Abstract The administration of President Michel Temer (2016-2018) led to significant changes in Brazilian foreign policy towards South America as opposed to the country’s goals that had remained in place for over a decade. This article addresses the question of how and why these changes unfolded under Temer’s government. Anchored in an analytical framework of Public Policy Analysis, we develop two main arguments. Firstly, we claim that the changes in foreign policy towards South America represented a paradigmatic transition from a post-liberal strategy to the restoration of the logic of open regionalism. Secondly, we argue that this change resulted from the coupling of the three dimensions of the political process: problem recognition, policy alternatives, and politics. The primary cause of such change was the political dispute in the public arena between business groups and party leadership.

Conversation and Genre Analysis of a Political News Debate

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Mark Graham Sample
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Television News ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Personal Goals ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
Political News ◽  
Live Television ◽  
News Interview

<p>The author uses spoken discourse taken from a live television political news debate to reveal the techniques and strategies used by three interlocutors as they attempt to achieve their goals and agendas. Frameworks from the fields of conversation analysis (henceforth CA) and genre analysis are used to analyse the data. The data show how the interaction starts within the constraints of a television news interview before becoming combative as the interlocutors jostle to achieve their personal goals and agendas. The paper also notes audience involvement and who the interlocutors are addressing during their turns.</p>

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