Effectiveness of Interruption as a Communicative Strategy in the 2020 Presidential Debates in the USA

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/_flysystem/fedora/pdf/BSE_48_2022_2_07.pdf" target="_blank" >https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/_flysystem/fedora/pdf/BSE_48_2022_2_07.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/BSE2022-2-5" target="_blank" >10.5817/BSE2022-2-5</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Effectiveness of Interruption as a Communicative Strategy in the 2020 Presidential Debates in the USA

Original language description

The research hypothesizes that the American 2020 Presidential debate participants used recurrent interruptions as a communicative strategy to gain more power on the debate floor and win the voters’ support. The form of political interaction (televised debates) also affected the candidates’ speech behavior in a way that it added another participant (the general public) to the discussion; as a result, an institutionally controlled form of political discourse was subjected to a medial turn. This kind of media influence contributed to the speakers’ choice of specific interruption types during the debates. The research analyses the turn-taking strategies of D. Trump and J. Biden employed in the First and Second (and Final) Debates and matches them with the pre- and post-debate poll results. The article concludes that although having a certain impact on the perception of the politicians’ personalities, the effect of interruptions as a debate strategy on the voters’ final choices was marginal.

Czech name

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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

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Brno Studies in English

ISSN

0524-6881

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

48

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

210

Pages from-to

101-118

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85163560336