Chapter 11. Intertextuality as a means of positioning in a talk-show
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Svĕtla Čmejrková✝
und Jana Hoffmannová
Abstract
The chapter examines the discourse of a Czech talk-show, an interview with the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of the Czech Republic. The twofold aim is to trace the process of mutual positioning in which both the host and the guest participate and to examine the role of intertextuality in the practices they use for this purpose. The interview is analyzed as an intertext built upon other texts, both external and internal to the current interaction: the host’s practices include allusions to voices coming from “outside”, as well as echoing the guest’s voices heard “inside” the interaction, and even reporting fictitious dialogues. We focus on the polyphony of voices arising in a talk-show and manipulative techniques used in the process of positioning.
Abstract
The chapter examines the discourse of a Czech talk-show, an interview with the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of the Czech Republic. The twofold aim is to trace the process of mutual positioning in which both the host and the guest participate and to examine the role of intertextuality in the practices they use for this purpose. The interview is analyzed as an intertext built upon other texts, both external and internal to the current interaction: the host’s practices include allusions to voices coming from “outside”, as well as echoing the guest’s voices heard “inside” the interaction, and even reporting fictitious dialogues. We focus on the polyphony of voices arising in a talk-show and manipulative techniques used in the process of positioning.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
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Part 1. Strategies in daily conversations
- Chapter 1. Strategy and creativity in dialogue 11
- Chapter 2. Conversational irony: Evaluating complaints 25
- Chapter 3. Speaking through other voices 43
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Part 2. Plural identities and viewpoints in acquisition and language learning
- Chapter 4. The self as other: Self words and pronominal reversals in language acquisition 57
- Chapter 5. The function of formulations in polyphonic dialogues 73
- Chapter 6. Observing the paradox: Interrogative-negative questions as cues for a monophonic promotion of polyphony in educational practices 87
- Chapter 7. Co-construction of identity in the Spanish heritage language classroom 101
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Part 3. The play of voices in mass media and politics
- Chapter 8. Polyphonic strategies used in polemical dialogue 117
- Chapter 9. Metacommunication and intertextuality in British and Russian parliamentary answers 129
- Chapter 10. The role of prosody in a Czech talk-show 143
- Chapter 11. Intertextuality as a means of positioning in a talk-show 161
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Part 4. Social and cultural polyphony and intertextuality
- Chapter 12. Rumour in the present Romanian press: Aspects of knowledge sources and their linguistic markers 175
- Chapter 13. Peritextual dialogue in the dynamics of poetry translatability 189
- Chapter 14. Voices through time in Meso-American textiles 205
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Part 5. Dialogism in literary discourse
- Chapter 15. “Finn Mac Cool in his mind was wrestling with his people”: Polyphonic dialogues in Flann O’Brien’s comic writing 225
- Chapter 16. Dialogization, ontology, metadiscourse 237
- Chapter 17. Ironic palimpsests in the Romanian poetry of the nineties 251
- Chapter 18. Polyphony in interior monologues 265
- General references 279
- Index 297
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Part 1. Strategies in daily conversations
- Chapter 1. Strategy and creativity in dialogue 11
- Chapter 2. Conversational irony: Evaluating complaints 25
- Chapter 3. Speaking through other voices 43
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Part 2. Plural identities and viewpoints in acquisition and language learning
- Chapter 4. The self as other: Self words and pronominal reversals in language acquisition 57
- Chapter 5. The function of formulations in polyphonic dialogues 73
- Chapter 6. Observing the paradox: Interrogative-negative questions as cues for a monophonic promotion of polyphony in educational practices 87
- Chapter 7. Co-construction of identity in the Spanish heritage language classroom 101
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Part 3. The play of voices in mass media and politics
- Chapter 8. Polyphonic strategies used in polemical dialogue 117
- Chapter 9. Metacommunication and intertextuality in British and Russian parliamentary answers 129
- Chapter 10. The role of prosody in a Czech talk-show 143
- Chapter 11. Intertextuality as a means of positioning in a talk-show 161
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Part 4. Social and cultural polyphony and intertextuality
- Chapter 12. Rumour in the present Romanian press: Aspects of knowledge sources and their linguistic markers 175
- Chapter 13. Peritextual dialogue in the dynamics of poetry translatability 189
- Chapter 14. Voices through time in Meso-American textiles 205
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Part 5. Dialogism in literary discourse
- Chapter 15. “Finn Mac Cool in his mind was wrestling with his people”: Polyphonic dialogues in Flann O’Brien’s comic writing 225
- Chapter 16. Dialogization, ontology, metadiscourse 237
- Chapter 17. Ironic palimpsests in the Romanian poetry of the nineties 251
- Chapter 18. Polyphony in interior monologues 265
- General references 279
- Index 297