2018 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
The Face Model of Televised Political Interviews in Japan: A Comparative Study in Political Communication
| Project/Area Number |
16K03498
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| Research Institution | Doshisha University |
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Principal Investigator |
FELDMAN Ofer 同志社大学, 政策学部, 教授 (50208906)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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| Keywords | political interviews / equivocation / Diet members / rhetoric / Japan / media discourse / threat to face / Television |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This study revealed that (1) interviewers’ questions affect interviewees’ replies and that the latter’s answers affect the interviewers’ subsequent questions; (2) Conflictual questions that create pressure toward equivocation in the responses are intrinsically more face threatening than nonconflictual questions; (3) Nonconflictual questions were typically more open-ended, allowing the interviewees the opportunity to construct their replies according to their convenience. They were thus less face threatening; (4) The more conflictual questions, conversely, consisted of polar questions and those that posed a choice between two or more alternatives. (5) Conflictual questions occurred most often when interviewees were asked questions on social and political issues rather than when they were asked questions on nonissues related topics; (6) Politicians, particularly high-echelon members from the coalition of parties, were more vulnerable to conflictual questions, that is, they face tougher questions in contrast to members of the opposition parties, who face less controversial questions.
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