Playing Discourse Games

The primary objective of this study is to propose a comparative analysis of the political TV interview with reference to two distinct approaches: the theory of discourse ( dialogue ) games (Carlson 1983), an extension of game-theoretical semantics (GTS) and the strategic perspective.

Autorentext

Joanna Szczepanska-Wloch, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Her research interests centre on political discourse, media discourse and language games, with a particular regard for text-forming strategies employed by political actors.

Inhalt

discourse analysis information asymmetry in strategic thinking signalling signal jamming hybridisation of the news interviews gamification of political parlance verbal duelling the straw man fallacy soliloquy as a macro-strategy contingent strategy humour as a defence mechanism