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News Interviews: A Pragmalinguistic Analysis

By Andreas H. Jucker

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1986
ISBN
9027225540, 9789027225542
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17740068 bytes)
Series
Pragmatics & Beyond
Pages
207\206
Time added
2015-01-16 18:58:50

Description

Jucker endeavors to test pragmatic concepts (such as Grice’s principles of conversational inference) by applying them to concrete data. This application leads to suggestions for various modifications in the available pragmatic methodology. While pursuing this theoretical goal, he makes a significant contribution to descriptive pragmatics by offering a detailed picture of linguistically relevant aspects of news interviews, which show communicative behavior in ‘laboratory conditions’ where as many influencing factors as possible are kept stable while the influence of one specific factor at a time can be tested.

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