Blame attributions and mitigated confessions: The discursive construction of guilty admissions in celebrity TV confessionals
| Autor: | Wendy Archer, Ruth Parry |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Social psychology (sociology) Psychoanalysis Communication media_common.quotation_subject Discourse analysis 05 social sciences Face negotiation theory 050801 communication & media studies Confession False accusation Blame 0508 media and communications Conversation analysis Discursive psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Discourse & Communication. 13:591-611 |
| ISSN: | 1750-4821 1750-4813 |
| Popis: | Drawing on insights from conversation analysis, discursive psychology and social psychology, this article describes some interactional features of two celebrity TV confessionals and the resources used by the TV interviewers and celebrity guests to attribute, accept or deny responsibility for their transgressions. The analytic interest lies in how confessions are locally and interactionally managed, that is, how ‘doing confessing’ is achieved in the television interview context. We show how the host’s opening turn constrains the celebrity guest’s contribution and secures overt admission of guilt, while simultaneously inviting the celebrity guest to tell their side of the story. We also show how celebrity guests produce descriptions which minimize the extent and severity of their transgressions, reduce agency and transform the character of their transgression. In doing so, we argue that celebrity interviewees can convey mitigations and extenuations which diminish the extent of their responsibility – calling into question the very nature of their confession. We propose that our findings demonstrate the hybrid nature of interviewing in the celebrity TV confessional and contribute to our understanding of how ‘doing confessing’ in the public eye is discursively and interactionally negotiated. |
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