Innovation in Language Learning
The Discourse Analysis of Pseudo-Intimacy in Political Interviews
Hussain Hameed Mayuuf, University of Babylon (Iraq)
Abstract
The political interview is one of the common discourses of media discourse. The study analyzes the discourse of political interviews as one kind of interview. It reveals the linguistic aspects of how the pseudo-intimacy is created by the interviewers with political interviewees. The linguistic cues are used in more than one kind like pronouns, vocatives, pragmatic markers and so on. These markers are used to sustain the relation between the presenters and the guests who know each other only on the level of Public persona. The sense of strangeness that the audience feels between the presenters and guests disappears through using these markers in interviews to fill the gaps in the communication with political figures.
The aim of the study is to find how these markers are used in political interviews and which one of them is used more than the other.
The hypothesis of the study is that the vocative marker is used more than others in creating pseudo-intimacy in political interview.
Keywords: Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Media discourse, Pseudo-intimacy, Role-hold power, political interview
