Some Standard Uses of "What about"-Prefaced Interrogatives in the Broadcast News Interview
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Roth, Andrew; Olsher, David
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Interrogatives (as linguistic objects, described by their grammatical features) and questioning (as a social action, responsive to prior actions and consequential for subsequent ones) can both serve as vehicles for a range of social activities. This article reports on one distinctive form of interrogative, the ''what about''-prefaced interrogative, with a particular focus on its uses in broadcast news interviews. We analyze the internal composition and sequential position of ''what about''-prefaced interrogatives and identify four standard uses of them by interviewers: pursuing a prior interviewee's response, juxtaposing multiple interviewees' positions, invoking a prior agenda, and proposing membership in a category. On the basis of this analysis, we consider how the recurrent use of this particular interrogative form can serve as an interactional means of instantiating a particular broadcasting ''style,'' thus contributing to distinctions among various public affairs programs.
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تاريخ نشر
1997
عنوان
Issues in Applied Linguistics
شماره جلد
8/1
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