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Jucker, Andreas H.

News Interviews : a pragmalinguistic analysis. - Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986. - 1 online resource (207 pages)

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 tim.

ISBN: 9789027279309 (electronic bk.) 9027279306 (electronic bk.) 1283359022 9781283359023 6613359025 9786613359025 9789027225542 9027225540

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Interviewing in journalism.
Pragmatics.
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Interviews.
Pragmatique.
Actes de parole.
interviews.
pragmatics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Psycholinguistics.
Interviewing in journalism.
Pragmatics.
Speech acts (Linguistics)

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN4784.I6

Dewey Class. No.: 401.9 401/.9