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Interviewing for accountability

Ideological framing and argumentation

 | Future University Hakodate (Japan)
 | University of Sydney (Australia)
Published online: 2 November 2018
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Abstract
During the National Policy Institute’s national conference in Washington D.C. on Saturday November 19th, 2016, Richard Spencer delivered a speech in praise of the election victory of President Donald Trump. Shortly after the conference, Spencer was an invited guest on the News One Now programme in which he participated in a 32-minute interview with black journalist, host and managing editor Roland Martin. Drawing attention to the ideological aspects of the Martin/Spencer interview performance, we adopt the analytical lens of the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (Musolff, Andreas. 2014. “Metaphor in the Discourse-Historical Approach.” In Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies, ed. by Christopher Hart and Piotr Cap, 45–66. London: Bloomsbury.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar; . 2009. “The Discourse-Historical Approach.” In Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis. Introducing Qualitative Methods, ed. by Ruth Wodak and Michael Meyer, 87–121. 2nd ed. London: Sage.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar; Wodak, Ruth. 2001. “The Discourse-Historical Approach.” In Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis (1st edition), ed. by Ruth Wodak and Michael Meyer, 63–95. London: Sage. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar, . 2009. The Discourse of Politics in Action. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar) to explore argumentation as a discursive strategy through topoi or argumentative warrants (. 2009. “The Discourse-Historical Approach.” In Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis. Introducing Qualitative Methods, ed. by Ruth Wodak and Michael Meyer, 87–121. 2nd ed. London: Sage.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar; . 2009. The Discourse of Politics in Action. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar, . 2011. The Discourse of Politics in Action, 2nd edition. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar, . 2015. “Critical Discourse Analysis, Discourse-Historical Approach.” The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction, 1–14.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar; Wodak, Ruth and Salomi Boukala. 2015. “European Identities and the Revival of Nationalism in the European Union: A Discourse Historical Approach.” Journal of Language and Politics 14(1): 87–109. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar).
Article outline
  • 1.Preamble
  • 2.The news media as source of opinionated fact
  • 3.The news interview as ideological confrontation
  • 4.Approaches to argumentation
  • 5.Methods
    • 5.1Pre-interview framing
    • 5.2Interview analysis
  • 6.Conclusion
  • References
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