Hearing non-neutral: listening practices and the construction of societal consensus in hybrid election campaign interviews

Kantara, Argyro 2017. Hearing non-neutral: listening practices and the construction of societal consensus in hybrid election campaign interviews. Journalism 18 (1) , pp. 119-137. 10.1177/1464884916657529

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Abstract

Ekström and Kroon Lundell, Ekström and Hutchby refer to hybridity in political news interviews as the mix of activities or the systematic shifting between speech exchange systems otherwise associated with non-interview settings. In their examination of journalists’ mixed interactional activities, both Hutchby and Ekström discuss how hybridity is explored as an interactional resource to question politicians and/or create an argumentative environment, breaching the neutralistic role of the broadcast news journalist. In this article, I examine instances of journalists’ breaching neutralism not through their hybrid questioning practices but through their listening practices in one-on-one interviews conducted during the 2012 Greek general election campaigns. In my data, journalists use hybrid listening practices to co-produce politicians’ arguments and to answer their own questions. Findings indicate that journalists’ hybrid listening practices provide political actors with new ways to mainstream and appropriate their manifestos to the public.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Election campaign interviews, hybridity, listening practices, neutralism, reactive tokens
Publisher:	Sage
ISSN:	1464-8849
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	10 October 2016
Date of Acceptance:	7 July 2016
Last Modified:	01 Dec 2024 09:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/95256

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