How Not to Answer Questions in Political Interviews

Bull, Peter; Mayer, Kate

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“…2-What other evasion strategies are used by the Turkish politicians except for the ones mentioned by Bull and Mayer (1993), Galasinski (2000) and Clayman (2001)? 3-What are the frequencies of the evasion strategies used by the Turkish politicians? 4-Does the frequency of the evasive answers of the politicians change according to the position of their political parties in the Turkish Parliament?…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Methodology The methodology of the research is based on a triadic amalgamation proposed in turn by the functional approach of Bull & Mayer (1993) which was further developed by Bull (2003), the semanticstructural approach by Galasinski (2000) and finally, Clayman (2001). Of the three, the functional approach was developed considering the functions of replies with 12 distinct forms of evasion, and this approach forms the basis of our final typology.…”

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“…The purpose of the present study is to investigate the evasion strategies that are used by Turkish politicians in TV interviews. While investigating such strategies, the study relies on the categories that were developed by Bull and Mayer (1993) which was further developed by Bull (2003), Galasinski (2000) and Clayman (2001) to determine if similar strategies are used in Turkish political context or not. Another aim of this study is to find out if there are any other evasion strategies except for the ones mentioned by the scholars stated above.…”

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“…Research Questions 1-As far as the models developed by Bull and Mayer (1993), Galasinski (2000) and Clayman (2001) are taken into account, which evasion strategies are used by the Turkish politicians in TV interviews? 2-What other evasion strategies are used by the Turkish politicians except for the ones mentioned by Bull and Mayer (1993), Galasinski (2000) and Clayman (2001)? 3-What are the frequencies of the evasion strategies used by the Turkish politicians?…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For instance, Clayman (2001) argues that there is a widespread perception that politicians are frequently evasive under questioning from members of the news media (p. 403). Bull (2003; also states that politicians are frequently depicted as slippery and evasive, even downright deceitful. In a similar vein, Bavelas et al (1990) put forward that politicians in political interviews habitually equivocate and their utterance by nature is always 'ambiguous', 'vague', 'wishy-washy', 'indirect', and 'obscure'.…”

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Evasion Stratejies Used in Turkish Political Discourse

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2016

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There is a widespread perception that politicians are frequently evasive under questioning from members of the news media (Clayman, 2001: 403). The evasion strategies like ignoring the question, questioning the question or employing humor are one of the most frequently analyzed aspects of the social-psychological literature on political interviews (Gnisci and Bonaiuto, 2003: 387). However, there have not been any studies that focus on the evasion strategies used in Turkish political context. The purpose of the study is to investigate the evasion strategies that are used by Turkish politicians in TV interviews in order to contribute to the studies that aim to find out the universal evasion strategies used by the politician worldwide.

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Section: Statement Of the Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Statement Of the Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Statement Of the Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Statement Of the Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Question of Threat: Face Threats in Questions Posed During Televised Political Interviews

Elliott

Bull

1996

J. Community. Appl. Soc. Psychol.

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Bull et al. have developed a typology for the analysis of face threats in questions posed during political interviews. 19 different categories of face threat were identified, grouped into three superordinate categories of face which politicians need to defend: their own personal face, the face of the party and face in relation to significant others. This typology was employed in analysing 18 interviews with the three main party leaders in the 1992 British General Election. The main aims of the present study are: (a) to demonstrate how Bull et al.'s face typology can be effectively applied to the comparative analysis of questions in political interviews; (b) to identify the most commonly occurring categories of face threat generated in the questions from the '92 election data; (c) to explore differences in style adopted by the six political interviewers, in terms of the face threatening content of their questions; and (d) provide some insight into the types of question which tended to prove most problematic for the politicians. It was found that the individual interviewers adopted characteristic patterns of questioning associated with particular forms of face threat and these were discussed in terms of how problematic they proved to be—both generally and in relation to individual party leaders.

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The Analysis of Equivocation in Political Interviews1

Bull¹

2004

Doing Social Psychology Research

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How Not to Answer Questions in Political Interviews

Cited by 133 publications

References 14 publications

Evasion Stratejies Used in Turkish Political Discourse

Evasion Stratejies Used in Turkish Political Discourse

A Question of Threat: Face Threats in Questions Posed During Televised Political Interviews

The Analysis of Equivocation in Political Interviews1

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