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.

Building upon Du Bois’s Stance Triangle frame work by implementing a conversation analysis approach, this paper focuses on the two intersubjective acts in stance taking, namely positioning and alignment. With data collected from the transcripts of the CNN news program, Newsroom, are utilized as the data source for this analysis, which examines three ways of positioning for interviewers in turn: establishing the topic agendas or action agendas, setting the presupposition, and implying the preference of positive or negative responses. While responding in turn, interviewees are found to 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: An Application of Stance Triangle and Conversation Analysis. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 12, 188-206. doi: 10.4236/ojml.2022.122015.