Adversarial Political Interviewing

Introduction: Political Interviews – An Analytical Model.- Reciprocal Interactions between Interviewers and Interviewees.- Neutrality, Non-Neutrality, and Hybridity in Political Interviews.- Manifestations of Integrated Hybridity in Journalistic Questioning During the 2012 Elections in Greece.- Interviewing Styles: Reciprocal Positioning and Power in the Israeli Context.- Threat to Face and Equivocation in Televised Interviews of Italy’s Politicians For and Against the 2016 Constitutional Referendum.- Aristotelian Framing in Political Discourse: A Case Study of Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s Exclusive Interview with Radio Televisyen Malaysia and the News Agency Bernama.- Beyond the Question-Answer Format: How Montenegrin Interviewers Depart from the “Normative” Political Interview Structure.- Argumentative and Persuasive Strategies During Political Interviews.- A Metafunctional Analysis of Two Televised U.K. Political Interviews with Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer.- Argumentative Strategies and Self-Image Projection in Spanish Political Interviews.- Crisis Response Strategies in Political Interviews: A European Union Perspective.- The Finnish “Famous Five” in Television Interviews: Cultural Characteristics of Party Leaders’ Response Style.- A Linguistic Analysis of Interviewing Discourse During a Talk Show in the U.K..- Reference Statements and Quotes as Communication Strategy: Effects of Source Use During Japanese Televised Political Interviews.- Creating and Shaping Images in Interviews with Populist Politicians.- Adversarial Rhetoric or Lapdog Journalism? Political Interviews During the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Elections.- Pejoration in Political Interviews: Contrasting U.S. President Donald J. Trump with Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro.- Sustaining a Populist Persona: CNN Philippines’ Political Interview with President Rodrigo Roa Duterte as Image Restoration.- Understanding Turkish Political Culture through Televised Interviews: The Case of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.- The Role of Political Interviews in Mainstreaming and Normalizing the Far-Right: A View from Australia.- Coda: The Past, Present, and Future of Television Interview Studies.- Political Interviewing Research: Commonalities, Contrasts, Conclusions & Critiques.