Talking Politics in Broadcast Media
Cross-cultural perspectives on political interviewing, journalism and accountability
Editors
This book is a collection of studies on political interaction in a variety of broadcast, namely news and current affairs programs, political interviews, audience participation programs and radio phone-ins. Following a growing scholarly interest in political discourses, dialogic forms of news production and media talk in general, a number of internationally acclaimed scholars investigate the discursive and interactional practices that give rise to the arena of public politics in contemporary society. Chapters span an array of cultural contexts, as diverse as Sweden, Greece, Belgium (Flanders), the U.K., Spain, Israel, the U.S.A., Australia and China. Authors combine an interest in discourse analysis and conversation analysis with different disciplinary orientations, such as linguistics, media and cultural studies, sociology, political science, and social psychology. The book uncovers current trends in media and political discourse, and will be of interest to both students and scholars of media discourse and politics.
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 42] 2011. ix, 248 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Contributors | pp. vii–viii
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Appendix | pp. ix–x
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Talking politics in broadcast media: An introductionMats Ekström and Marianna Patrona | pp. 1–12
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Part I. Conversational strategies in political interviewing and political news discourse
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Chapter 1. Questioning candidatesSteven E. Clayman and Tanya Romaniuk | pp. 15–32
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Chapter 2. The accountability interview, politics and change in UK public service broadcastingMartin Montgomery | pp. 33–56
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Chapter 3. Political discourse in TV news: Conversational presentation and the politics of ‘trust’Andrew Tolson | pp. 57–74
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Chapter 4. Political television formats as strategic resources in achieving journalists’ rolesEva De Smedt and Kristel Vandenbrande | pp. 75–92
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Chapter 5. Address terms in the Australian political news interviewJohanna Rendle-Short | pp. 93–112
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Part II. Neutralism and hybridity in contemporary broadcast journalism
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Chapter 6. Doing non-neutral: Belligerent interaction in the hybrid political interviewIan Hutchby | pp. 115–134
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Chapter 7. Hybridity as a resource and challenge in a talk show political interviewMats Ekström | pp. 135–156
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Chapter 8. Neutralism revisited: When journalists set new rules in political news discourseMarianna Patrona | pp. 157–176
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Chapter 9. When the watchdog bites: Insulting politicians on airZohar Kampf and Efrat Daskal | pp. 177–198
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Part III. Discourse patterns for displaying accountability in citizen participation programmes
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Chapter 10. “I have one question for you Mr. President”: Doing accountability in “citizen interviews”Nuria Lorenzo-Dus | pp. 201–222
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Chapter 11. Officials’ accountability performance on Hong Kong talk radio: The case of the Financial Secretary HotlineFrancis L.F. Lee and Angel M.Y. Lin | pp. 223–242
“This is an important contribution to the growing body of work on the political news interview by leading international analysts of broadcast talk. Of particular interest is the attention paid to changes in the management of news talk over time and its cultural variations from one country to another. Highly recommended for all students of the discourses of news on radio and television.”
Paddy Scannell, University of Michigan
“The book is wide ranging in its cultural and geographic spread of broadcast talk involving politicians. Thus it provides great resources for those interested in analysing such talk in an intercultural context, which this book makes clear is useful not only for understanding material from ‘elsewhere’ but also for Anglo-American data. [...] This book is worth its price to have readily available these valuable resources for anyone interested in working on audio or video political interactions be they broadcast or online.”
Brendan O’Rourke, Dublin Institute of Technology, in Journal of Language and Politics, Vol 12:4 (2013)
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Communication Studies
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General