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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 | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 10 November 2017 | ||||||
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