Marcia Macaulay
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marcia Macaulay is involved.
Articles
2017 The question of politeness in political interviews Pragmatics 27:4, pp. 529–552 | Article
This paper examines the question of politeness in political interviews, looking particularly at the use of loaded questions. Comparison is made between the two principal paradigms of politeness, Locher and Watts (2005) and Brown and Levinson (1987). The paper focuses on the interviewing style of… read more
2014 ‘Father knows best’: Therapy as entertainment Pragmatics and Society 5:2, pp. 296–316 | Article
This paper examines two realisations of the television talk show in North America: The Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil, looking specifically at how they function within the sub-genre of ‘therapeutic talk show’ in keeping with Livingstone and Lunt’s (1994) classification of talk shows. Talk shows… read more
1996 Asking to ask: The strategic function of indirect requests for information in interviews Pragmatics 6:4, pp. 491–509 | Article