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Publication details [#38954]

Léon, Jacqueline. 2004. Preference and "bias" in the format of French news interviews: the semantic analysis of question–answer pairs in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 36 (10) : 1885–1920.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interview | newspaper report | preference organization | question

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper demonstrates that the structure of question–answer pairs in French news interviews systematically flouts semantic predictions and preference for agreement.