Theoretical ideals and their violation: Princess Diana's BBC television interview

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel C. O'Connell ◽  
Sabine Kowal
Keyword(s):  
Television Interview

Analysis of FIFA’s Attempt at Image Repair

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuka Onwumechili ◽  
Koren Bedeau
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
International Federation ◽  
Image Repair ◽  
Association Football ◽  
Media Events ◽  
Image Repair Theory ◽  
Television Interview

This study analyzes the response by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) after its top officials were arrested for corruption early in 2015. FIFA’s response included President Sepp Blatter’s brief address to FIFA Congress. In the days that followed, Mr. Blatter also gave a television interview and appeared in other media events where he attempted to repair the organization’s image. The analysis focuses on the effectiveness of FIFA’s attempt at image repair. First, it uses Benoit’s image repair theory (IRT) to analyze FIFA’s rhetoric. Second, it conducts a thematic analysis of content from 215 publications in eight newspapers selected from four continents during three crises stages. The results indicate that FIFA failed in its attempt to repair its image following the corruption crisis.

TRANSLATION TECHNIQUES OF STYLISTIC PHENOMENA IN A TV INTERVIEWER’S SPEECH

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (31) ◽  
pp. 312-327
Author(s):  
Olexandra Popova ◽  
Oleg Bolgar ◽  
Tomashevska Anastasiia
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Language Translation ◽  
Speech Segment ◽  
Pragmatic Function ◽  
Conversational Style ◽  
Translation Techniques ◽  
Television Interview ◽  
Linguistic Units ◽  
Correct Translation

The work is devoted to the study of translation peculiarities of stylistic features of a TV interviewer’s English speech into Ukrainian. The correct translation of the content of a speech segment requires good knowledge of vocabulary, and the capability to recognize the stylistic features of a foreign language in communication, and the techniques used to translate them into the native language. Translation of metaphors, metonymy, comparisons is of particular difficulty for the translator, however, it is the ability to use various techniques in translation that helps the translator to convey the meaning of the statement to the listener adequately. The television interview is characterized as an independent journalistic genre, is a kind of television communication, a purposeful individual-social speech phenomenon, which consists of the organized interaction detween the speakers and finds its expression in a specific dialogically constructed form. The results of this study show that each translated stylistic unit is characterized by a set of transformations typical for it. In most cases, these transformations involve lexical and syntactic stylistic devices. At the level of vocabulary, the speech of a TV interviewer is characterized by a significant number of colloquialisms, colloquial cliches, phraseological units. At the level of syntax, the typical indicators of the conversational style of the TV nterviewer are parallel constructions, repeated requests, elliptical sentences, repetitions, unfinished phrases, and the absence of inversion in interrogative sentences. The information obtained as the result of convergence of stylistic devices as a set of components participating together with other linguistic units in the formation of expressiveness, emotiveness and evaluation is one of the important sources of the language pragmatic function.

An Empirical Test of the Leathers Personal Credibility Scale: Panel Responses to the Clinton Candidacy

1992 ◽  
Vol 75 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1255-1261 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. C. Powell ◽  
J. W. Wanzenried
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Bill Clinton ◽  
Credibility Scale ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Television Interview

A panel of 178 university students used the Leathers Personal Credibility Scale to rate Governor Bill Clinton before and after a television interview and ten weeks later before and after a televised debate. The findings show a significant difference in personal credibility among the test scores and new scale findings emerge from the data.

Lex Orandi and Lex Credendi — Strange Bed-Fellows?: Some Reflections on Worship and Doctrine

1986 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-242
Author(s):  
Kenneth W. Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
The Media ◽  
Television Interview ◽  
North And South ◽  
The Church ◽  
Lex Orandi

Easter 1985 in the Church of England was a strange experience, resounding with the controversy which David Jenkins had begun the previous year during a television interview, after he had been elected Bishop of Durham. The scenario has been widely discussed by the media, by professional theologians, and by ordinary church-folk, north and south of the border. For the writer, it was the first Easter he can remember since being ordained when the resurrection was actually being discussed, not just in Senior Common Rooms, but in pubs. I was even taken to task by someone working in my local wine-store. In some respects, the furore was well summed-up in his attitude: he had long ceased to attend church, but shouldn't church-leaders believe in what they are supposed to believe?

scholarly journals Impoliteness and Thematic Variation in Spanish Television Interviews

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Ester Brenes Peña ◽  
Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Format ◽  
Argumentative Strategies ◽  
Television Interview

This paper analyses Spanish television interviews and presents a contrast between the impolite argumentative strategies employed by the interviewer to attack the image of the interviewee in interviews with politicians and celebrities. It aims to demonstrate how the topic addressed and the subtype of interview influence the strategies employed and degree of impoliteness shown by the interviewer. The analysis of our corpus has shown that the current television interview differs from the traditional format of this genre in a number of respects. Impoliteness is used in Spanish interviews in order to attract the audience and to build the journalist’s face in political interviews as participants in ideological confrontation. Nevertheless, the detailed study of the impoliteness strategies employed by the interviewer has shown that the modification of features largely depends on the subtype examined. We observed in television celebrity interviews a wider range of strategies of verbal impoliteness, which are absent from political interviews. This explains why a variationist perspective has been adopted in the analysis of verbal impoliteness.

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