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Publication details [#53817]

Montgomery, Martin. 2010. Rituals of personal experience in television news interviews. Discourse & Communication 4 (2) : 185–211.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

audience | experience | interview | news reporting | television

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

This paper discusses how the seemingly formulaic nature of the verbal performance in 'experiential' (television) news interviewing, shapes the experience in a way close to ritual, yet requires a different kind of audience alignment than accountability interviewing.