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The journalistic interview: an auxiliary genre in television news reporting
Kaderka, Petr ; Havlík, Martin
Drawing upon ethnographic research, it is argued that producing television news is based on exploiting an elaborated and hierarchically ordered system of genres. Three levels are to be distinguished. Basic genres (1) are news item types (e.g. standard news, short news, live news etc.) that are employed in complex genres (2), i.e. television news programs. This paper focuses on an auxiliary genre (3) ‘journalistic interviews’, i.e. interviews with respondents, fragments of which are presented in TV news reports. The genre norms operating in journalistic interviews are derived from TV news reports as a superordinate genre. As a result, a specific course of interaction and a specific asymmetry between questions and answers are established.
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Style, register, dialogue
Čmejrková, Světla
The object of analysis in this paper is a television interview between a moderator and two candidates for the senate, one of which is a politician, the other an actor. The selection of differing communicative styles, the first of which utilizes the knowledge of institutional discourse and the second of which emphasizes personal engagement, is accompanied by the selection of differing registers (institutional and subjective) and linguistic codes (literary Czech vs. non-literary Czech). The paper analyzes the dialogic overtones in their conflicting turns and focuses on the interpretation of the dialogical style which arises in their interaction.
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The syntactic stylistics of spoken Czech
Hoffmannová, Jana
This paper is stimulated by the ideas of Karel Hausenblas, the work of Olga Müllerová and the research on the syntax of Czech dialects (J. Balhar, J. Chloupek, M. Šipková and others). It presents a catalogue of phenomena and means of expression which mark the syntax of spoken Czech and devotes attention above all to: a) special syntactic constructions b) the varying formation of transitions between syntactic units in spoken expression (sharply structured transitions) and in written expression (softer, less apparent transitions, couched or “stuck” with numerous redundant means with non-definite semantics); that is, differences in the degree and type of cohesion, connection, or glutination between written and spoken expression c) differences between condensed, constricted written syntax and the relaxed structure of syntactic units in spoken Czech (with the prevalence of parataxis and juxtaposition). The paper views the syntactic differences between written and spoken expression as stylistic differences. It is based on data from various corpora of spoken Czech (including the Prague Dependency Treebank of Spoken Czech) and on the comparison of written and spoken narrative by the same speaker/author.
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Language attitudes: research and interpretation
Čmejrková, Světla
This article is inspired by Daneš´s concept of language attitudes and their classification. It is based on a survey conducted with contemporary students of secondary schools and universities, and university students with Czech as a major subject (100 people in total). Their answers identify relevant topics for the formulation of attitudes toward territorial and stylistic variation in contemporary Czech, above all toward their experience of the opposition of standard and non-standard Czech.
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