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| Confrontational Strategic Manoeuvring in a Political Interview: A Pragma-Dialectical Analysis of a Response to an Accusation of Inconsistency | page 43-58 | ||
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The paper provides a pragma-dialectical analysis of an instance of confrontational strategic manoeuvring in a political interview. First, the institutional conventions that characterize a political interview are described by providing an account of the contextually determined institutional constraints that affect confrontational strategic manoeuvring.
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Second, an analysis of a specific instance
of confrontational strategic manoeuvring is provided in which a politician responds to an accusation of inconsistency put by forward by an interviewer.
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| keywords: confrontational strategic manoeuvring, political interview, retraction of a standpoint, | |||
