Diane Ponterotto
List of John Benjamins publications in which Diane Ponterotto is involved.
Articles
2018 Hedging in political interviewing: When Obama meets the press Pragmatics and Society 9:2, pp. 175–207 | Article
This study presents an analysis of hedging strategies employed by the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, in political interviewing. Using a discourse-analytic procedure, the study investigates a corpus of 22 press interviews and verifies the presence of hedging-related… read more
2014 The risks of uncertainty: Hedging strategies in rape trial discourse Certainty and Uncertainty in Dialogue, Zuczkowski, Andrzej (ed.), pp. 93–111 | Article
This paper presents an analysis of the forms and functions that a normal conversational strategy like hedging can assume in an institutionalized form of discourse — in this case, the courtroom, and particularly, in a specific juridical text-type: the cross-examination of the victim-witness in a… read more