英文摘要 |
Adopting the perspective from the discursive psychology, this study examines how broadcast news interviewers construct various versions of audiences, and how they use the audience as a discursive resource to deal with the dilemmas of stake in research interviews. Based on the researcher's in-depth interviews with ten senior anchors, this study explored how the anchors described the audience as factual notions with discursive techniques, such as systematic vagueness, lists and contrasts. In addition, this study found that different notions of the audience were used by the anchors to justify their news interview designs and performances. As a discursive resource, the audience was used to establish the anchor's neutral position as well as to emphasize the independence of a journalist. The anchors also used stake inoculation and stake confession to mitigate or to avoid the potential criticism and blame from the researcher. |