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Publication details [#45710]

Emmertsen, Sofie. 2007. Interviewers’ challenging questions in British debate interviews. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (3) : 570–591.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | interview | opposition | television debate | turn-taking

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper discusses how British broadcast panel interviewers’ initial challenging questions polarise interviewees’ positions and provoke interactional confrontation, according to a conversational turn-taking system and the turn-taking system for news interviews.