News interviews : a pragmalinguistic analysis /

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Author / Creator:Jucker, Andreas H.
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1986.
Description:xi, 195 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Pragmatics & beyond, 0166-6258 ; VII:4
Pragmatics & beyond VII:4.
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Format: Dissertations Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/830118
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ISBN:1556190034 (U.S. : pbk. : alk. paper) : $30.00
Notes:Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Zürich, 1986.
Bibliography: p. [185]-195.
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