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Publication details [#67060]

Parry, Ruth and Wendy Archer. 2019. Blame attributions and mitigated confessions: The discursive construction of guilty admissions in celebrity TV confessionals. Discourse & Communication 13 (6) : 591–611.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
blaming | celebrity tv confessional | confessing | conversational analysis | discourse analysis | face maintenance | interview | mitigation | television
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications

Annotation

The findings of this study show the hybrid nature of interviewing in the celebrity TV confessional and contribute to the understanding of how celebrity guests' ‘doing confessing’ is discursively and interactionally negotiated in the television interview context.