Address terms in the service of other actions: The case of news interview talk

In broadcast news interviews, interviewees will occasionally address the interviewer by name. As a method of establishing the directionality of talk, address terms are redundant in this institutional context because the normative question/answer activity structure and associated participation framew...

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Published in:Discourse & communication 2010-05, Vol.4 (2), p.161-183
Main Author: Clayman, Steven E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Broadcasting
Case studies
Interviews
News
Social interaction
Verbal communication
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Summary:In broadcast news interviews, interviewees will occasionally address the interviewer by name. As a method of establishing the directionality of talk, address terms are redundant in this institutional context because the normative question/answer activity structure and associated participation framework make the direction of address transparent and knowable in advance. But address terms can be deployed in the service of a variety of actions beyond addressing per se. Some of these involve disaligning actions such as topic shifts, non-conforming responses, and disagreements. Others involve the presentation of views as particularly significant or sincere. Address terms are thus a resource for managing certain expressive properties of talk, as well as its disalignment from prior talk.
ISSN:1750-4813
1750-4821
DOI:10.1177/1750481310364330