Question(Ing) Strategies in British Political News Interviews: Grilling The Interlocutors as a Strategic Weapon

Q3 Arts and Humanities
Joanna Szczepańska-Włoch
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Abstract

Every dialogue is constrained by a rigid framework, which manifests itself in its linear character (an initial-continuation-counter move structure or a question-answer relationship and dismissal-argumentation order of dialogue), and which illustrates the functional dependencies between sentences or sequences of sentences. The following study focuses on the discourse-pragmatic notion of the interviewer’s text-forming strategies, and, in particular, the question-answer relationship of political news interviews in Great Britain. Attention is focused on the questioning strategies employed by Andrew Marr in The Andrew Marr Show. Various types of questions within epistemic logic, which act as the strategic repertoire of the participants in dialogue games (Carlson 1983), are examined. The list of question types includes indirect and direct questions, where the former refer to sentential (yes-no), search (wh-questions), conditional, alternative, tag, ellipted, disjunctive or conjunctive questions (as instances of multiple questions), and the latter to questions presupposing the accomplishment of the specific epistemic state. Andrew Marr, as a dominant participant in this dialogue game, at least with reference to his role that presupposes topic control (selection and change of topics), will use this strategic weapon to influence the politicians’ performance and make them account for their political actions.
英国政治新闻采访中的提问策略:将对话者作为一种战略武器
每一个对话都受到一个刚性框架的约束,该框架表现为其线性特征(对话的初始连续反移结构或问答关系和否定论证顺序),并说明了句子或句子序列之间的功能依赖性。接下来的研究重点是采访者文本形成策略的话语语用概念,特别是英国政治新闻采访的问答关系。人们的注意力集中在安德鲁·马尔在《安德鲁·马尔秀》中使用的提问策略上。研究了认知逻辑中的各种类型的问题,这些问题是对话游戏参与者的战略曲目(Carlson 1983)。问题类型列表包括间接问题和直接问题,前者指的是句子(是否)、搜索(wh问题)、条件问题、替代问题、标记问题、省略问题、析取问题或连接问题(作为多个问题的实例),后者指的是预设完成特定认识状态的问题。安德鲁·马尔作为这场对话游戏的主导参与者,至少就他以话题控制(话题的选择和改变)为前提的角色而言,他将利用这一战略武器来影响政治家的表现,并使他们对自己的政治行为负责。
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Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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期刊介绍: SLing publishes original research papers in all linguistic disciplines. The primary objective of our journal is to offer an opportunity to publish academic papers and reviews to the scholars employed by the Faculty of Philology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, however, academics from all over the world are kindly invited to publish in our periodical as well. We accept papers both theoretically- and descriptively-oriented.
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