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Publication details [#52563]

Young, Sally. 2008. The broadcast political interview and strategies used by politicians: how the Australian prime minister promoted the Iraq War. Media, Culture & Society 30 (5) : 623–640.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | debate | discourse strategy | interview | political language

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper attempts to distinguish the discourse strategies used by politicians in broadcast interviews via the case-study of the Australian prime minister Howard when justifying his position on the domestically unpopular Australian foreign policy of participating in the 2003 Iraq War.