Publications

Publication details [#60340]

Bull, Peter, Ofer Feldman and Ken Kinoshita. 2015. Culture or Communicative Conflict? The Analysis of Equivocation in Broadcast Japanese Political Interviews. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 34 (1) : 65–89.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ambiguity | interview | language and culture | political discussion | television

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Both national and local politicians used significantly more marked ambiguity in Japanese televised interviews as to the 2012 general election than nonpoliticians. An account needs to consider the situational theory of communicative conflict and Japanese politics' and society's cultural standards.