Workshops Detail

Follow-Ups Across Discourse Domains: A Cross-Cultural Exploration Of Their Forms And Functions In Political Discourse

Convened by: Anita Fetzer (DE), Elda Weizman (IL)

Location: 31 May-2 June 2012, Würzburg, Germany

Keywords

Dialogic interaction; follow-up; political discourse; media discourse; socio-pragmatics

Summary

The workshop examines the forms and functions of the dialogue act of a follow-up, viz. accepting or challenging a prior communicative act, in political discourse across spoken and written dialogic genres considering (1) the discourse domains of political interview, editorial, op-eds and discussion forum, (2) their sequential organization as regards the status of initial (or 1st order) follow-up, a follow-up of a prior follow-up (2nd order follow-up), or nth-order follow-up, and (3) their discursive realization as regards degrees of indirectness and responsiveness which are conceptualized as a continuum along the lines of fully explicit and fully responsive.

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