Text Type and Texture - Gail Forey
‘to elicit an honest answer – which may occasionally be the same as the truth’: texture, coherence and the antagonistic political interview
Text Type and Texture - Gail Forey
David Hyatt [+]
University of Sheffield
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David Hyatt works in the School of Education, University of Sheffield
where he is the Director of three programmes: the MEd in English Language
Teaching; the MA in Education Policy and Practice; and Singapore Distance
Learning Programme. He is also a tutor on the MA Literacy and Language
in Education Programme and a core member of the Literacy Research
Centre. He has an MEd TEFL from the University of Bristol and a PhD in
critical literacy from the University of Sheffield.
Description
Hyatt tackles the texture of adversarial political interviews. His database of television political interviews, questionnaires and interviews with specialist informants offers an overview of the argumentative meaning making devices exploited by interviewers and interviewees, and how the potential for resistant readings/hearings of a text may be developed.