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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor | Faculty of Humanities | en_US |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Ho, Victor (ENGL) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Lam, Phoenix (ENGL) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Fu, Yanli | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://theses.lib.polyu.edu.hk/handle/200/13587 | - |
| dc.language | English | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | en_US |
| dc.rights | All rights reserved | en_US |
| dc.title | Discourse markers in political interviews : a corpus-based comparative study | en_US |
| dcterms.abstract | This study adopts a corpus-based top-down approach to investigate the three most commonly used but insufficiently studied discourse markers (and, so, but) in political interviews. The research focuses on the genre of political interviews and examines two English political interview programs: The Point with Liu Xin aired on the China Global Television Network (CGTN) from 2020 to 2022, hosted by the Chinese interviewer Liu Xin, and HARDtalk broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) from 2020 to 2022, hosted by the British interviewer Stephen Sackur. These interviews comprise the Corpus of Chinese Political Interviews (CCPI) and the Corpus of British Political Interviews (CBPI), respectively, consisting of 60 episodes each. | en_US |
| dcterms.abstract | The study conducts an in-depth analysis of the three selected discourse markers (DMs), undertaking both quantitative and qualitative comparisons of their utilizations by the two interviewers (IRs) across two different English political interview contexts. The quantitative analysis involves examining and comparing the frequency distribution of the three DMs used by the two IRs. Subsequently, a fine-grained qualitative inquiry is executed to scrutinize the functions of the three DMs used by both IRs and to draw comparisons between them. Moreover, the study investigates the extent to which, sociolinguistic characteristics, such as culture, language background, gender, and age group, of the interviewees (IEs) influence the frequencies and functions of these three DMs as employed by the two IRs. In addition, the study examines and compares linguistic variables of DM co-occurrence and DM position associated with the frequencies and functions of the three DMs used by the two IRs within the two political interview television shows. | en_US |
| dcterms.abstract | The quantitative analysis reveals statistically significant differences in both the frequency and certain functions of the three DMs used by the two IRs. Notably, the Chinese IR employs the two DMs (and, so) more frequently compared to the British IR, while the British IR produces the DM but with a statistically higher frequency. The qualitative results highlight the multifunctionality of the three DMs, as they serve multiple discourse functions across four different domains, namely, sequential (SEQ), ideational (IDE), rhetorical (RHE), and interpersonal (INT). In particular, the functions performed by the three DMs in the sequential domain account for the largest proportion, indicating their pivotal role in structuring spoken institutional discourse in the context of political interviews. The most frequently observed functions for the three DMs and, so, and but are addition (ADD), topic (TOP), and contrast (CTR), respectively. Additionally, the British IR exhibits a strategic use of a wider array of discourse functions of the three DMs in comparison to the Chinese IR. Moreover, this study demonstrates that IEs’ sociolinguistic attributes have limited influence on the frequencies and functions of the three DMs used by the two IRs in political interviews. It is also revealed that DM co-occurrence is a not prevailing phenomenon within the domain of political interviews, and a strong correlation is identified between the most predominant function and the initial position of the three DMs used by the two IRs. | en_US |
| dcterms.abstract | Overall, the current investigation elucidates different interviewing styles utilized by the two interviewers through analysing their deployment of the three DMs in political interviews regarding the aforementioned aspects. More importantly, this research emphasizes the significance of conducting DM research within the realm of media discourse and contributes to a better understanding of the functional spectrum of DMs in organizing institutional discourse from the interviewer’s perspective. | en_US |
| dcterms.extent | xvii, 262 pages : color illustrations | en_US |
| dcterms.isPartOf | PolyU Electronic Theses | en_US |
| dcterms.issued | 2024 | en_US |
| dcterms.educationalLevel | DALS | en_US |
| dcterms.educationalLevel | All Doctorate | en_US |
| dcterms.LCSH | Discourse analysis | en_US |
| dcterms.LCSH | Communication in politics | en_US |
| dcterms.LCSH | Language and languages -- Political aspects | en_US |
| dcterms.LCSH | Sociolinguistics | en_US |
| dcterms.LCSH | Hong Kong Polytechnic University -- Dissertations | en_US |
| dcterms.accessRights | restricted access | en_US |
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