Interactional figures and communicative purpose in spontaneous conversations, journalistic interviews and sociolinguistic interviews
Abstract
This study explores the conversationalisation of media discourse through a contrsative analysis of journalistic interviews and two related genres, spontaneous conversations and sociolinguistic interviews. To do so, in the first place, interactional patterns in the three genres are compared using a visualization tool. The results show that journalistic interviews are closer to conversation than sociolinguistic interviews. Secondly, it is argued that some of the structural differences can be explained by taking into account the communicative purpose of each genre. The distinctive features of conversation are related to the absence of a transactional purpose. The contrast between both types of interview is related to a difference in the type of informative transaction: while in sociolinguistic interviews it is only the production of linguistic forms that is important, in journalistic interviews agreement is negotiated; this has consequences on the interactional structure.
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