Full Description
This book explores the various forms and functions of follow-ups in a range of political speech events. Follow-ups are conceptualized as communicative acts, in and through which a prior communicative act is accepted, challenged, or otherwise negotiated by ratified participants in the exchange or by third parties. The broad view suggested here accommodates a large variation in the functions of follow-ups, e.g. positioning, third-party involvement, evaluation and argumentation, ratification, support, challenge and attendance to face wants. These variations are explored in a range of cultural environments, such as the UK, The Netherlands, Israel and France. Inter-cultural exchanges are studied through the analysis of diplomatic discourse, interpreting and cross-cultural comparison.
Contents
1. Following up across contexts and discourse domains: Introduction (by Fetzer, Anita); 2. Follow-ups in the new media; 3. Follow-ups in broadcast political discourse: speeches, interviews, and parliamentary questions (by Bull, Peter); 4. Intertextual references in Austrian parliamentary debates: Between evaluation and argumentation (by Gruber, Helmut); 5. "I have nothing to do but agree": Affiliative meta-discursive follow-ups as a resource for the reciprocal positioning of journalists, experts and politicians-as-experts in television news (by Hamo, Michal); 6. Follow-ups across speech events; 7. Bravo for this editorial!: Users' comments in discussion forums (by Johansson, Marjut); 8. Metacommunicative follow-ups in British, German and Russian political webchats (by Sivenkova, Maria); 9. Follow-ups across speech events; 10. Framing the Queen's head scarf: A case study of follow-ups in Dutch politics (by Ensink, Titus); 11. Follow-ups in political talk shows and their visual framing (by Sauer, Christoph); 12. Follow-ups in interpreter-mediated interviews and press conferences (by Schaffner, Christina); 13. Follow-ups in pre-structured communication: The case of treaty monitoring (by Mikalayeva, Liudmila); 14. Index
