Genre and Cultural Style in TV News Coverage of the European Elections 2014

Thornborrow, Joanna; Haarman, Louann

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-56629-0_4

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“…These evidentiality-marking strategies help mark or imply non-firsthand information (Aikhenvald, 2004), and discreetly distance politicians from their face-threatening act (Ahn and Yap, 2015). The discrediting statements in adversarial contexts are then often rounded up by an evaluative closing segment (Thornborrow and Haarman, 2017), which could involve negative evaluative markers and question tags. In the case of Mandarin or Cantonese, the question tags may take the form of an aggressive A-not-A question construction (Holmberg, 2015; Huang et al, 2009).…”

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Inclusivity and exclusivity in the use of Cantonese ngo⁵dei⁶ (‘we’) in evasive replies in Hong Kong political discourse

Wai

Yap

2018

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Politicians frequently face adversarial questions during election time. They often provide evasive replies to veer away from the controversial issues, but such equivocation also distances them from the audience. To deal with this problem, politicians often use the inclusive 'we' to identify themselves with the interest of the general public when they equivocate, or they sometimes use the exclusive 'we' to shift the responsibility of controversial policies to their political parties. The choice of inclusive versus exclusive 'we' in equivocation is not random but is governed by contextual factors, for example, the speech topic, the politician's affiliation (if any) and the political system within a given culture. In Hong Kong, the Chief Executive Election candidates often do not belong to any political party. In this article, we examine how this unique contextual factor affects the choice of inclusive and exclusive 'we' in the evasive replies of politicians in the 2012 Hong Kong Chief Executive Election debates.

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Inclusivity and exclusivity in the use of Cantonese ngo⁵dei⁶ (‘we’) in evasive replies in Hong Kong political discourse

Wai

Yap

2018

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“…As will be illustrated in the empirical part of the study, the positioning of the PRR is conditioned by institutionalized sub-genres of news discourse. We use "sub-genre" here to refer to the type of communicative event manifest in choices of content, style, stance and organization of voices (Montgomery 2007;Thornborrow and Haarman 2017).…”

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The normalization of the populist radical right in news interviews: a study of journalistic reporting on the Swedish democrats

2020

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Focusing on the salient case of news interviewing, this paper investigates the role of journalism in the normalization of radical right-wing politics and the discourses of nationalism and nativism. Normalization is related to transformations in the socio-political landscape, the discursive strategies of political actors, the professional norms of journalism, and the discursive positioning of political views in news reporting. Data include news interviews with the leaders of the Swedish right-wing populist party, the Swedish Democrats. A discourse-and conversation analytical approach is applied to analyze the discursive representations and positioning of political views in four different contexts of interviewing: routine news events, political scandals, live two-party interviews, and set piece interviews. The study shows an overall tendency to normalize and legitimize the political views and language of the radical right. Distinctive practices and mechanisms are identified. The study highlights the challenges of journalism, related to the normalizing implications of the restricted forms of impartiality applied in news journalism.

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Genre and Cultural Style in TV News Coverage of the European Elections 2014

Cited by 2 publications

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Inclusivity and exclusivity in the use of Cantonese ngo⁵dei⁶ (‘we’) in evasive replies in Hong Kong political discourse

Inclusivity and exclusivity in the use of Cantonese ngo⁵dei⁶ (‘we’) in evasive replies in Hong Kong political discourse

The normalization of the populist radical right in news interviews: a study of journalistic reporting on the Swedish democrats

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Genre and Cultural Style in TV News Coverage of the European Elections 2014

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Inclusivity and exclusivity in the use of Cantonese ngo5dei6 (‘we’) in evasive replies in Hong Kong political discourse

Inclusivity and exclusivity in the use of Cantonese ngo5dei6 (‘we’) in evasive replies in Hong Kong political discourse

The normalization of the populist radical right in news interviews: a study of journalistic reporting on the Swedish democrats

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Inclusivity and exclusivity in the use of Cantonese ngo⁵dei⁶ (‘we’) in evasive replies in Hong Kong political discourse

Inclusivity and exclusivity in the use of Cantonese ngo⁵dei⁶ (‘we’) in evasive replies in Hong Kong political discourse