“Those are not my words”: Evasion and metalingual accountability in political scandal talk

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F20%3A00114020" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/20:00114020 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378216620300114" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378216620300114</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.01.003" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.pragma.2020.01.003</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

“Those are not my words”: Evasion and metalingual accountability in political scandal talk

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This article examines the issue of evasion in mediatized political interviews in the context of right-wing populist politics. As public figures, politicians are held accountable not only for their actions but also for their prior statements. Such ‘metalingual accountability’ applies to public contexts as well as utterances made in more private situations. Based on a case-study analysis of leaked conversations with a local populist politician and a subsequent follow-up media interview, the article identifies several metapragmatic strategies that are available to interviewees aiming to evade and deny utterances originally made in the backstage region. The findings indicate that equivocation and evasiveness arise from the politicians' need to mitigate the degree of face threat. This need is particularly acute where backstage honesty can lead to frontstage scandal, as in racist comments against certain ethnic groups, whereby the speaker's status as a publically acceptable politician is in danger.

Název v anglickém jazyce

“Those are not my words”: Evasion and metalingual accountability in political scandal talk

Popis výsledku anglicky

This article examines the issue of evasion in mediatized political interviews in the context of right-wing populist politics. As public figures, politicians are held accountable not only for their actions but also for their prior statements. Such ‘metalingual accountability’ applies to public contexts as well as utterances made in more private situations. Based on a case-study analysis of leaked conversations with a local populist politician and a subsequent follow-up media interview, the article identifies several metapragmatic strategies that are available to interviewees aiming to evade and deny utterances originally made in the backstage region. The findings indicate that equivocation and evasiveness arise from the politicians' need to mitigate the degree of face threat. This need is particularly acute where backstage honesty can lead to frontstage scandal, as in racist comments against certain ethnic groups, whereby the speaker's status as a publically acceptable politician is in danger.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA16-05484S" target="_blank" >GA16-05484S: Diskurzní konstrukce jinakosti v mediálním a postmediálním prostoru</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Journal of Pragmatics

ISSN

0378-2166

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

158

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

March 2020

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

66-79

Kód UT WoS článku

000518865900005

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85079117326