Positioning in media dialogue : negotiating roles in the news interview /

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Author / Creator:Weizman, Elda.
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Dialogue studies, 1875-1792 ; v. 3
Dialogue studies ; v. 3.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11189512
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Varying Form of Title:Positioning in media dialog
Negotiating roles in the news interview
ISBN:9789027290816
9027290814
9789027210203
9027210209
1282104829
9781282104822
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and indexes.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Weizman, Elda. Positioning in media dialogue. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008 9789027210203 9027210209