Playing Discourse Games: The Political TV Interview in Great Britain and Poland

ISBN-13: 9783631851401 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 432 str.

Joanna Szczepanska-Wloch

Opis

The primary objective of this study is to propose a comparative analysis of the political TV interview with reference to two distinct approaches: the theory of discourse (dialogue) games (Carlson 1983), an extension of game-theoretical semantics (GTS) as proposed by Jaakko Hintikka, specifically his strategic paradigm (1973, 1985, 1990), and the strategic perspective adopted by Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff (1991, 2010 for business games with roots in the mathematical theory of games). Text-forming strategies utilised by the selected British and Polish political figures have been presented and the strategic repertoire of politicians have been systematised following the five master strategies of: cooperation, co-opetition, conflict/competition, manipulation and persuasion.

Spis treści

discourse analysis - information asymmetry in strategic thinking - signalling - signal jamming - hybridisation of the news interviews - gamification of political parlance - verbal duelling - the "straw man" fallacy - soliloquy as a macro-strategy - contingent strategy - humour as a defence mechanism

O autorze

Joanna Szczepanska-Wloch, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Her research interests centre on political discourse, media discourse and language games, with a particular regard for text-forming strategies employed by political actors.