“That’s Not Funny!” Identity and the organization of interaction on USA entertainment-political interviews

Reijven, Menno H.; Grimshaw, Eean; Dori-Hacohen, Gonen

doi:10.1016/j.dcm.2020.100386

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“…This style of dialogue is common to late-night talk shows, which represent "congenial, playful" question-and-answers between hosts and guests (Timberg 2002, p. 7). Late-night programs specifically feature public figures, such as actors, musicians, and politicians, whose appearances on the show promote an upcoming film, musical tour, or political campaign (Reijven et al 2020;Loeb 2017). Self-promotion also strives for relatability: the talk show offers an opportunity for the audience to "get to know" the otherwise unattainable celebrity guest, with the interview providing some level of familiarity (Reijven et al 2020;Loeb 2017).…”

Section: Opacities Of Speech: Finding Shared Historical Experience Th...mentioning

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“…Late-night programs specifically feature public figures, such as actors, musicians, and politicians, whose appearances on the show promote an upcoming film, musical tour, or political campaign (Reijven et al 2020;Loeb 2017). Self-promotion also strives for relatability: the talk show offers an opportunity for the audience to "get to know" the otherwise unattainable celebrity guest, with the interview providing some level of familiarity (Reijven et al 2020;Loeb 2017). Ketai's interviewing aims for a similar intimacy, yet Potter-Takata's responses challenge this effort.…”

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Choreographing Multiraciality: Mixed-Race Methods in North American Contemporary Dance

Shaffer

2023

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Multiracialism, or the concept of “mixed-race”, remains a key racial discourse within twenty-first-century North American societies. Scholarly and mainstream studies of multiracial people often highlight the function of speech in theorizing mixed-race experiences, where interviews or other first-person narratives resist racialized stereotypes and express complex multiracial identities. Yet these studies often overlook the body as a comparable analytical site, ignoring how the body’s mobilization—in dance, choreography, and everyday actions—might further nuance mixed-race subjecthood. My article emphasizes experimental dance and choreography as alternative methods for imagining multiracial subjects, where these body-based approaches reject both stereotypical depictions of multiracial people in mainstream media and “transparent” representations in interviews. Drawing on the concept of “opacity,” which describes unknowable, illegible difference, I propose that experimental dance enables the expression of “opaque” multiracial subjectivities. This article then offers a choreographic analysis of Glenn Potter-Takata’s Yonsei f*ck f*ck, an experimental dance that produces opacities for its performers, who are of mixed Japanese heritage. Through movement scores, stand-up comedy, and a re-created “late-night” talk show, the dance invites audiences to move beyond the desire to recognize, categorize, and “know” the mixed-race Asian American performer.

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Section: Opacities Of Speech: Finding Shared Historical Experience Th...mentioning

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Section: Opacities Of Speech: Finding Shared Historical Experience Th...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Choreographing Multiraciality: Mixed-Race Methods in North American Contemporary Dance

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2023

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The co-construction of campaign argumentation on U.S.A. late-night talk shows

Reijven

2021

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This study shows that when presidential candidates visit, late-night talk show discourse is argumentative, and that this argumentation is co-constructed by the host and the candidate. Through their questions, hosts implicitly invoke arguments by casting doubt on the candidate’s presidential bid. By treating the host’s questions as critical questions expressing skepticism whether people should vote for the candidate, politicians prototypically use two types of argument schemes to defend their case. First, to argue that their policy proposals are needed, candidates use complex problem-solving argumentation. Second, to maintain that they have the skills and character to succeed as president, candidates use symptomatic argumentation. In their response, candidates also deal with other critical questions belonging to the argument scheme invoked through the host’s question. Which critical questions of that argument scheme the candidate addresses in addition to the one posed by the host depends on the type of question the host has asked.

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“That’s Not Funny!” Identity and the organization of interaction on USA entertainment-political interviews

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Choreographing Multiraciality: Mixed-Race Methods in North American Contemporary Dance

Choreographing Multiraciality: Mixed-Race Methods in North American Contemporary Dance

The co-construction of campaign argumentation on U.S.A. late-night talk shows

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