Description
Book SynopsisThis book presents a collection of studies on political interviews in a variety of broadcast media worldwide. Following the growing scholarly interest in media talk as a dominant form of political communication in contemporary society, a number of eminent international scholars analyze empirical material from the discourse of public figures and interviewer–journalists to address questions related to the characteristics, conduct, and potential effects of political interviews. Chapters span a varied array of cultural contexts: the U.S.A., U.K., Israel, Japan, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Australia, Philippines, Finland, Brazil, Malaysia, Spain, Venezuela, Montenegro, and the European Community, enabling a comparison of the different structures and contents of political interviews in societies from West to East. Authors bring an interest in discourse and conversation analysis, as well as in rhetorical techniques and strategies used by both interviewers and interviewees, from different disciplinary viewpoints including linguistic, political, cultural, sociological, and social–psychological. In doing so, the book develops a framework to assess the extent to which media political interviews and talk shows, and regular news programs, play a central role in transmitting accurate and genuine political information to the general public, and how audiences can make sense of these programs’ output.
Trade Review“As a volume consisting of contributions … this book has a few merits. First, as the book’s title suggests, is its entailing of worldwide perspectives, case studies of televised political interviews include leaders from the United Kingdom … and Australia. The second is the diversity of methodologies and analytical approaches adopted in this book’s chapters. As with any scientific contribution … . this is an issue for all qualitative researchers in social science that needs further insights.” (You Tenghua, Communicatio - South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research, January 31, 2024)
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Interviews in Media Talk Shows Ofer Feldman (Doshisha University, Japan)
Chapter 2 Neutrality, Non-Neutrality and Hybridity in Contemporary Political Interviews Ian Hutchby (University of York, UK)
Part 1. Reciprocal Interactions between Interviewers and Interviewees
Chapter 3 Interviewing Styles: Reciprocal Positioning and Power Games in the Israeli Context Elda Weizman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Chapter 4 Adversarial Rhetoric or Lapdog Journalism? Political Interviews in Brazil during the 2018 Elections Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques (UFPR, Brazil) Edna Miola (UTFPR, Brazil) Naiza Comel (UFPR, Brazil) Andressa Butture Kniess (UFPR, Brazil)
Chapter 5 Coercion, Threat and Equivocation in Televised Interviews to Politicians Favorable to and Opposing the Constitutional Referendum of 2016 in Italy Augusto Gnisci et al. (University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy)
Chapter 6 Rhetorical Paradigms in Political Interviews: A Case Study of Muhyiddin Yassin’s Exclusive Interview with Astro Awani and RTM TV1 Debbita Ai Lin Tan (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia) Ali Badeen Mohammed Al-Rikaby (Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq)
Chapter 7 The Rhetoric of Political Interviews in Taiwan: Use of Equivocation Theory Hongna Miao (Nanjing University, China) Hsin-Che Wu (Shandong University, China)
Chapter 8 Beyond the Question-Answer Format: Departing from the Normative News Interview Structure in Montenegrin Political Interviews Milica Vuković-Stamatović (University of Montenegro, Montenegro)
Chapter 9 Manifestations of Integrated Hybridity in Journalistic Questioning Argyro Kantara (Cardiff University, & University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK) 2 Part 2. Argumentative Strategies during Political Interviews
Chapter 10 Argumentative Strategies and Self-Image Projection in Spanish Political Interviews Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez (University of Seville, Spain)
Chapter 11 Pejoration in Political Interviews: Contrasting Donald Trump and Nicolás Maduro Isabel Íñigo Mora (University of Seville, Spain) Juan Carlos Frías Arenas (University of Seville, Spain)
Chapter 12 Crisis Response Arguments in Political Interviews: The Case of the European Commission Corina Andone (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Chapter 13 Understanding Political Culture through Televised Political Interviews in Turkey: The Case of President Erdoğan Ayşe Deniz Ünan Göktan (an independent researcher and lecturer of sociology, Turkey).
Chapter 14 Intra- Extra-Vocalisation in Japanese Political Interviews: Politicians’ Use of Sources in Replies to Interviewers’ Questions Ofer Feldman (Doshisha University, Japan) Ken Kinishita (Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan)
Part 3. Linguistic and Multimodal Analysis in Political Interviews
Chapter 15 The Broadcast Political Interview in the UK: A Linguistic and Multimodal Analysis Gianmarco Vignozzi (Università di Pisa, Italy)
Chapter 16 The Role of Discourse Markers in Public Speaking: A Corpus-Based Approach Péter B. Furkó (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Hungary)
Chapter 17 Comparing Spanish and US Political Rhetoric: Engagement Markers in Political Interviews Broadcast during the COVID-19 Pandemic Ana Albalat-Mascarell (Valencia Polytechnic University, Spain) María Luisa Carrió-Pastor (Valencia Polytechnic University, Spain) Part 4. Creating and Shaping Images during Political Interviews
Chapter 18 A Functional Analysis of Two Interviews: A Test of Character Gerard O’Grady (Cardiff University, UK)
Chapter 19 Political Interviews as Image Restoration: A Government-Sponsored Interview Sustaining a Populist Persona Gene Segarra Navera (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Chapter 20 Finnish Party Leaders’ Television Interviews Pekka Isotalus (Tampere University, Finland)
Chapter 21 Mainstreaming and Normalizing the Far-Right in Australia: The Role of Political Interviews Kurt Sengul (University of Newcastle Australia)
Part 5. Conclusions
Chapter 22 The Study of Political Interviews: Commonalities and Contrasts Sam Lehman-Wilzig (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
