Talking Politics in Broadcast Media -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Appendix -- Talking politics in broadcast media -- Chapter overview -- Research challenges -- Challenge 1: To expand the research in political discourse with respect to the diversity of broadcast formats -- Challenge 2: To develop cross-national research and uncover culture-specific aspects of broadcast talk -- Challenge 3: To explore the forms and practices of political accountability in broadcast talk -- Challenge 4: To explore the variation and transformation of roles and relations in broadcast talk -- Challenge 5: To examine how 'traditional' standards and identities of journalism are challenged in different forms of broadcast talk -- Challenge 6: To explore the connection between micro analysis of talk and interaction and broader trends in the media and politics -- References -- Part I. Conversational strategies in political interviewing and political news discourse -- Chapter 1. Questioning candidates -- Introduction -- Data and methodology -- Probing knowledge -- Mapping ideology -- Clarifying promises -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2. The accountability interview, politics and change in UK public service broadcasting -- Introduction: Talking politics and the role of the interview -- Canonical forms of the political accountability interview -- Accountability, adversarialism and neutralism -- Discursive change in the political accountability interview: From deference to adversarialism -- Normative instability, metadiscourse and change in the political accountability interview -- Departures from canonical norms in the political accountability interview: Attenuated questions, assertions, counter-assertions and micro-arguments.

Changes in the practice of the accountability interview in relation to professional codes of neutralism -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3. Political discourse in TV news -- Introduction: The problem of 'trust' -- Data and methodology -- Beyond 'tabloidization' -- Politicians in the news: Interviews and soundbites -- 'Propositional ventriloquism' and sceptical pragmatics -- Talk and trust -- Conclusion: A 'bias against understanding'? -- References -- Chapter 4. Political television formats as strategic resources in achieving journalists' roles -- Introduction -- Journalists' institutional roles -- The use of predefined programme formats and frames in the Flemish context -- The public survey -- Prearranged topic shifts -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5. Address terms in the Australian political news interview -- Introduction -- Questions in the political news interview -- Address terms in the political news interview -- Data and methodology -- Analysis -- Five exemplars of address term prefaced responses to yes/no questions -- Type-conforming and non-conforming responses -- Actions achieved by turn-initial address terms in response to yes/no questions -- Responding to address term prefaced turns -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Part II. Neutralism and hybridity in contemporary broadcast journalism -- Chapter 6. Doing non-neutral -- What is the hybrid political interview? -- Data -- Emotional heightening -- Interview pre-sequence -- Initial question-answer sequence -- Confrontation sequence -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7. Hybridity as a resource and challenge in a talk show political interview -- Introduction -- Talk show interviews as hybrid talk: Definitions and analytical approach -- Question designs in hybrid political interviews -- Reactions to interviewees' answers -- Reaction 1 (Line 11) -- Reaction 2 (Line 17).

Reaction 3 (Line 22) -- The management of frame shifts -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8. Neutralism revisited -- Introduction -- Neutralism in political news interviews -- Live interaction on Greek evening news -- Neutralism revisited: The Greek news interview -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 9. When the watchdog bites -- Introduction -- The political interview: Between (legitimate) adversarialness and (illegitimate) aggressiveness -- The political interview: Between (legitimate) adversarialness and (illegitimate) aggressiveness -- Data and methods -- Practices of Insulting on air -- A verbal damaging act -- A non-verbal damaging act -- An interactional damaging act -- Insulting politicians on air: common characteristics -- Insulting politicians on air: Reasons and Implications -- Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Part III. Discourse patterns for displaying accountability in citizen participation programmes -- Chapter 10. "I have one question for you Mr. President" -- Introduction -- Politics and television in Spain -- The study -- Results -- Doing being an IR in TUPPU -- IRs' assessment of IE behaviour - The "impoliteness" of political accountability -- From doing political accountability to managing citizen participation -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 11. Officials' accountability performance on Hong Kong talk radio -- Introduction -- Talk radio and accountability performance -- The set up of Financial Secretary Hotline -- Data and method -- The basic participation framework -- Shaping Callers' contributions -- Asking questions -- Reformulation -- Dismissal -- Host-official interactions -- Conclusions -- References -- Index.