News Interviews

• Acknowledgments | p. ix
• Transcription Notations and Abbreviations | p. x
• 1. Introduction | p. 1
• 1.1. Aim and Scope
• 1.2. The Corpus
• 1.3. Problems of Definition
• 1.4. Four Methods of Analysis
• 2. Aspects of Duration | p. 25
• 2.1. Quantificational Studies of Conversation
• 2.2. The “Matarazzo Effect” in News Interviews
• 2.3. Summary
• 3. The Structure of Interviews | p. 45
• 3.1. Flow-Chart Representation of the Structure of interviews
• 3.2. Limitations of a Structural Model
• 4. Conversational Inference | p. 61
• 4.1. Introduction
• 4.2. Pragmatic Principles
• 4.3. Pragmatic Scales in News Interviews
• 5. The Force of Questions | p. 99
• 5.1. Introduction
• 5.2. Syntactic Means of Force Reduction
• 5.3. Discourse Particles
• 5.4. Cohesion between Questions and Preceding Answers
• 5.5. Pragmatic Means of Weight Reduction
• 6. The Vagueness of Answers | p. 140
• 6.1. Explicit or Vague
• 6.2. Parenthetical Verbs
• 6.3. “Well” as a Qualifier
• 7. Conclusion | p. 161
• Appendix
• A. 4 Sample Interviews | p. 166
• B. Prefaces of Interview Questions | p. 177
• Notes | p. 181

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