Same Politicians, Different Journalists. Political Interviewing Styles on Dutch-Speaking and French-Speaking Public Television in Federal Belgium
Same Politicians, Different Journalists. Political Interviewing Styles on Dutch-Speaking and French-Speaking Public Television in Federal Belgium

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes political television interviews in the two languages (French and Dutch) of federal Belgium. Clayman and Heritage (2002) have listed the communicative characteristics of news interviews and have set forth a framework for analysing them. We have applied their findings to the corpus we have collected from the two public broadcasting stations in Belgium. The focus of this paper is on the specific characteristics of interviews with politicians interviewed both in their native and their non-native tongue. We have especially focused on the interviewer's role in communication. It turns out that the interviewing styles on both channels analyzed are equally adversarial, but that the ways in which this adversarialness is achieved, differ.

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