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    "pk": 7075,
    "title": "Some Standard Uses of \"What about\"-Prefaced Interrogatives in the Broadcast News Interview",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Interrogatives (as linguistic objects, described by their grammatical features) and questioning (as a social action, responsive to prior actions and consequential for subsequent ones) can both serve as vehicles for a range of social activities. This article reports on one distinctive form of interrogative, the \"what about\"-prefaced interrogative, with a particular focus on its uses in broadcast news interviews. We analyze the internal composition and sequential position of \"what about\"-prefaced interrogatives and identify four standard uses of them by interviewers: pursuing a prior interviewee's response, juxtaposing multiple interviewees' positions, invoking a prior agenda, and proposing membership in a category. On the basis of this analysis, we consider how the recurrent use of this particular interrogative form can serve as an interactional means of instantiating a particular broadcasting \"style,\" thus contributing to distinctions among various public affairs programs.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": null,
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Applied Linguistics"
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    ],
    "section": "Articles",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7bg0c37w",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Andrew",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Roth",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "David",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Olsher",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2010-06-20T12:30:00+05:30",
    "date_accepted": "2010-06-20T12:30:00+05:30",
    "date_published": "1997-06-30T12:30:00+05:30",
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