TITLE:
Stance Taking in News Interviews Based on Stance Triangle and Conversation Analysis
AUTHORS:
Xiuling Shi, Jiayi Wu, Lifang Wei
KEYWORDS:
Stance Taking, News Interview, Questions, Responses, Stance Triangle, Positioning, Convergent Alignment, Divergent Alignment
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics,
Vol.12 No.2,
March
31,
2022
ABSTRACT: 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.