News Interviews : a pragmalinguistic analysis.

News Interviews : a pragmalinguistic analysis.

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Author / Creator:	Jucker, Andreas H.
Imprint:	Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986.
Description:	1 online resource (207 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Interviewing in journalism. Pragmatics. Speech acts (Linguistics) Interviewing in journalism. Pragmatics. Speech acts (Linguistics) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11122651

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ISBN:	9789027279309 9027279306 1283359022 9781283359023 6613359025 9786613359025 9789027225542 9027225540
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	Jucker endeavors to test pragmatic concepts (such as Grice's principles of conversational inference) by applying them to concrete data. This application leads to suggestions for various modifications in the available pragmatic methodology. While pursuing this theoretical goal, he makes a significant contribution to descriptive pragmatics by offering a detailed picture of linguistically relevant aspects of news interviews, which show communicative behavior in 'laboratory conditions' where as many influencing factors as possible are kept stable while the influence of one specific factor at a tim.
Other form:	Print version: 9789027225542

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Acknowledgments
2. Transcription Notations and Abbreviations
3. 1. Introduction
4. 1.1. Aim and Scope
5. 1.2. The Corpus
6. 1.3. Problems of Definition
7. 1.4. Four Methods of Analysis
8. 2. Aspects of Duration
9. 2.1. Quantificational Studies of Conversation
10. 2.2. The "Matarazzo Effect" in News Interviews
11. 2.3. Summary
12. 3. The Structure of Interviews
13. 3.1. Flow-Chart Representation of the Structure of interviews
14. 3.2. Limitations of a Structural Model
15. 4. Conversational Inference
16. 4.1. Introduction
17. 4.2. Pragmatic Principles
18. 4.3. Pragmatic Scales in News Interviews
19. 5. The Force of Questions
20. 5.1. Introduction
21. 5.2. Syntactic Means of Force Reduction
22. 5.3. Discourse Particles
23. 5.4. Cohesion between Questions and Preceding Answers
24. 5.5. Pragmatic Means of Weight Reduction
25. 6. The Vagueness of Answers
26. 6.1. Explicit or Vague
27. 6.2. Parenthetical Verbs
28. 6.3. "Well" as a Qualifier
29. 7. Conclusion
30. Appendix
31. A. 4 Sample Interviews
32. B. Prefaces of Interview Questions
33. Notes
34. References