The primary objective of this study is to propose a comparative analysis of the political TV interview with reference to two distinct approaches: the theory of discourse (dialogue) games (Carlson 1983), an extension of game-theoretical semantics (GTS) and the strategic perspective.

Autorentext

Joanna Szczepanska-Wloch, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Her research interests centre on political discourse, media discourse and language games, with a particular regard for text-forming strategies employed by political actors.

Inhalt

discourse analysis - information asymmetry in strategic thinking - signalling - signal jamming - hybridisation of the news interviews - gamification of political parlance - verbal duelling - the "straw man" fallacy - soliloquy as a macro-strategy - contingent strategy - humour as a defence mechanism