Publications
Publication details [#14074]
O'Connell, Daniel C. and Sabine Kowal. 1998. Orality and literacy in public discourse: An interview of Hannah Arendt. Journal of Pragmatics 30 (5) : 543–564. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This articles focuses on orality and literacy with respect to effective communication in televized interviews in German (Hannah Arendt by Günter Gaus) and, to a lesser extent, in English (Princess Diana by Martin Bashir). Spoken syllable ratios, length of turns, speech tempo, hesitations, and interviewer styles are compared.