Greatbatch, David (1985) The social organisation of news interview interaction. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

This thesis describes and analyses aspects of the social
organisation of British news interview interaction. After a review of
the sociological literature on the British news interview in Chapter 1,
and a discussion of the evolution of news interviewing in Britain in
Chapter 2, Chapter 3 argues that conversation analysis provides the
appropriate analytical framework for the study of all forms of naturally
occurring interaction. Using the techniques of conversation analysis,
the next three chapters then focus on thtee central domains of news
interview conduct: the organisation of turn-taking, the organisation of
topic, and the organisation of disagreement.
Chapter 4 proposes (i) that the news interview turn-taking system
operates through a simple form of turn-type pre-allocation, and (ii) that
this accounts for a range of systematic differences between news
interviews and mundane conversation. Chapter 5 first explicates same of
the types of work that interviewers accomplish through the production of
questions which maintain or pursue the topical focus of preceding turns
and sequences. It then examines same of the procedures which
interviewees recurrently use in order to shift the focus of their talk
away from the topical agendas which interviewers' questions establish for
their turns. Chapter 6, describes how the patterning of disagreements in
news interviews differs from that of disagreements in ordinary talk. In
so doing, it argues that the fact that the organisation of disagreements
in news interviews differs from that in conversation is largely a product
of considerations which arise due to the turn-type pre-allocated
character of news interview interaction.
Finally, Chapter 7 explores the relationship of same of the features
described in Chapters 4-6 to the background legal, institutional and
other normative constraints on news interviewer/ee conduct.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Television broadcasting of news -- Great Britain, Interviewing on television, Conversation analysis
Official Date:	November 1985
Dates:	Date Event November 1985 Submitted
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of Sociology
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Heritage, John
Extent:	v, 273 leaves
Language:	eng

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