Speaker Involvement in Political Interviews

by Jana Kozubíková Sandová

Overview

This book offers a pragma-semantic analysis of linguistic means (boosting and hedging devices, modal expressions) expressing speaker involvement in the genre of political interview. The aim of this study is to investigate the claim that this genre is detached and impersonal. It also investigates gender differences in the expression of politicians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631656426
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	12/15/2014
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jana Kozubíková Šandová is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Bohemia in České Budĕjovice (Czech Republic). Her research interests include topics on the interface between pragmatics and semantics, e.g. pragmatic functions of linguistic means in political interviews, intersubjective positioning in political and scientific discourse. Her latest publications deal with pragmatic aspects of political discourse.

Table of Contents

Contents: The delimitation of involvement as a linguistic category – Political interview as a discourse genre – Illocutionary force and speech act theory – Boosting and hedging – Intensification of the illocutionary force – Attenuation of the illocutionary force – Modality.