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In Linguistics, a short report about a linguistic phenomenon is…
In Linguistics, a short report about a linguistic phenomenon is known as squib In LING 1000, The purpose of the squibs is to provide opportunities to use and knowledge from class to new or different U.S data language The squibs are therefore aimed at seeing the relevance and application of the concepts discussed in LING 1000 to everyday life.
Squib #2, is an analysis of a Political Interview.
(1) Search for a recent interview with a U.S. elected official, at any level of government (local, state, federal). This should be from a ‘hard news’ outlet (shows like Meet the Press, etc.), as discussed in Lecture. Examples of outlets that conduct ‘hard news’ interviews include 60 Minutes (CBS), Meet the Press (NBC), Face the Nation(CBS), This Week(ABC), Fox News Sunday(with Chris Wallace, specifically), State of the Union (CNN), and The NewsHour(PBS). A press conference that includes questions and answers (e.g., with a White House Press Secretary) would also work well.
(2) Locate TWO question-answer sequences that you find particularly interesting and transcribe them- just the question and answer turns, not the whole interview! Your two question-answer sequences don’t need to appear directly in a row in the interview, but they can. Feel free to use interview transcripts generated by the news outlets themselves.
(3)transcribe your two question-answer sequences, your goal is to explain why you find each one interesting, with reference to what you know about how questions and answers are designed in news interviews.
As part of your analysis for each question-answer sequence, be sure to comment on aspects of the question’s design, including any relevant:
agenda-setting
presuppositions
preferences
prefaces
Then, consider how the answerer’s response deals with those aspects of the design of that question. Does the interviewee go along with the presuppositions of the question, or do they resist or evade them in some way, for example? Do they side-step the agenda of the question in some way? If so, how? [Etc.] response should be specific
indicate where you found the audio and/or video of the interview. A formal bibliography isn’t requiredjust include the link to the interview (e.g., on the news program’s website, on YouTube, etc.), the squib should be be two pages in length and double spaced
