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Publication details [#45745]

Luginbühl, Martin. 2007. Conversational violence in political TV debates: Forms and functions. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (8) : 1371–1387.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

form | function | political language | television debate | verbal behavior

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper uses Galtung's (1975) general definition of violence and Frank (1992) and Burger (1995)'s linguistic studies to develop a definition of ‘conversational violence’. It then examines how conversational violence functions in the Swiss political television debate show, ‘Arena’.