Investigating discourse markers “you know” and “I mean” in mediatized English political interviews: a corpus-based comparative study

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1427062" target="_blank" >10.3389/fcomm.2024.1427062</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Investigating discourse markers “you know” and “I mean” in mediatized English political interviews: a corpus-based comparative study

Original language description

This study employs a corpus-based approach to examine and compare the use of two discourse markers (DMs), “you know” and “I mean”, within the context of two mediatised English political interviews. The analysis encompasses frequencies, functions, co-occurrences, and positional distributions of these DMs. The study utilizes specialized corpora from two political interview programs: CGTN’s The Point with Liu Xin and BBC’s HARDtalk. The frequency analysis reveals that “you know” is statistically more prevalent than “I mean” in both programs, reflecting the spontaneity, interactivity, and need for clarification characteristic of political interviews. Notably, the Chinese interviewer (IR) uses “you know” more extensively, possibly due to a cultural preference for ensuring mutual understanding and engaging the audience, while the British IR employs “I mean” slightly more frequently, likely reflecting a tendency to clarify or reframe statements for precision. Functionally, these DMs serve diverse purposes such as hedging, agreeing, and monitoring across various domains including interpersonal, sequential, and rhetorical. Positional analysis shows “you know” typically appearing medially and “I mean” often in initial positions. These results underscore the distinctive interviewing styles of the two IRs and the pivotal role of these DMs in fulfilling a spectrum of communicative functions. This research offers valuable insights into the interviewer’s perspective in political interviews. Copyright © 2024 Fu, Afzaal and El-Dakhs.

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Communication

ISSN

2297900X

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2024

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

1-10

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85200571507