Author(s)

Xiuling Shi¹, Jiayi Wu², Lifang Wei^2*

¹English College, Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages, Shaoxing, China.
²School of Foreign Languages, Shaoxing University, Shaoxing, China.

Based on Du Bois ’s stance triangle and the approach of conversational analysis, this paper focuses on the two intersubjective acts in stance taking, i.e. positioning and alignment. With data collected from the transcripts of CNN’s news program, Newsroom, the analysis examines three ways of positioning for interviewers in questioning turn: establishing the topic agendas or action agendas, setting the presupposition, and implying the preference of positive or negative responses. While in responding turn, interviewees present convergent alignment through agreeing, deriving, reinforcing, and indicating divergent alignment through evading, disagreeing, and challenging.

Stance Taking, News Interview, Questions, Responses, Stance Triangle, Positioning, Convergent Alignment, Divergent Alignment

Shi, X. , Wu, J. and Wei, L. (2022) Stance Taking in News Interviews Based on Stance Triangle and Conversation Analysis. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 12, 188-206. doi: 10.4236/ojml.2022.122015.