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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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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-03511-7
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 | ||||||
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| 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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| Number: | 5 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 107-125 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
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