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'That was a bit daft though, wasn't it?' Strategic use of impoliteness in a post-match interview

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File, Kieran A. (2017) 'That was a bit daft though, wasn't it?' Strategic use of impoliteness in a post-match interview. In: Bączkowska, Anna , (ed.) Impoliteness in media discourse. Interfaces (5). Frankfurt am Main; New York, NY: Peter Lang Edition, pp. 107-125. ISBN 9783653035117

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Abstract

Post-match media interviews are typically characterised by polite and conciliatory exchanges between broadcast interviewers and professional sports players (File, 2012). This chapter, however, focuses on a post-match interview in which the interviewer employs face-threatening elicitations. Taking account of the social context, including the match context and discourse co-text, the chapter explores possible reasons for this face-threatening attack. Ethnographic interview data, which includes the perceptions of the participants, is also used to warrant the interpretation. The ethnographic data suggests that impoliteness can be strategically employed as a discursive resource to achieve a more frank revealing post-match interview exchange. As well as contributing to our understanding of impoliteness in media contexts, this chapter also testifies to the value of ethnographic insights in studies of (im)politeness.

Item Type: Book Item
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics
Series Name: Interfaces
Publisher: Peter Lang Edition
Place of Publication: Frankfurt am Main; New York, NY
ISBN: 9783653035117
Book Title: Impoliteness in media discourse
Editor: Bączkowska, Anna
Official Date: 2017
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2017Published
2016Accepted
Number: 5
Page Range: pp. 107-125
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
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