Political interview and argumentative strategies
Political interview and argumentative strategies

Summary/Abstract: Among journalistic genres, political interview holds a special place, considering the multiple components that need to be analyzed. One of them is the targeted communication medium, and we specify that it is the television interview. As such, it has a certain amount of time, a fixed number of participants and a well-defined theme to bead dressed. The specialty literature has attempted to identify the milestones in the study of political interview. To begin with, it is considered by some linguists as a verbal exchange between two people, the interviewer and the interviewee, in order to communicate information of public interest to interested parties. This kind of communication can be analyzed from a linguistic point of view, taking into account the achievements of verbal exchanges, of argumentative strategies, such as argumentative scales, rhetorical argumentation and other possible argumentative strategies. Such an analysis would imply also a study of lexical and semantic means, such as recurrent lexemes and their connotation in the context. It would also imply a study concerning the notion of the ethos, which is vital in our casa of study for the interviewee. The present article deals with two interviews of two French politicians, both belonging to the Far Right wing. We try to identify the similarities and differences between the two interviewees as shown in their interviews.

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