Adversarialness and Evasion in Broadcast Political Interviews Adversarial Challenges and Responses in Greek Political Interviews: A Case

that shows the interviewer’s opinion. Assertiveness is indicated by preface tilt and negative questions. The last group is adversarialness which considers interviewer’s criticism as the main focus. The features of adversarialness are global adversarialness and accountability questions. The classification of answer strategies can be categorized into three types. They include roundabout trajectory, minimal answer plus elaboration, and lexical repetition. The first category refers to the strategy representing a response that is indirect and not suitable to the question. The second strategy denotes to the suitable answer followed by explanation. The last answer strategy shows how the interviewee answers the question by copying some words from the interviewer referring to that issue on previous question. Conversation Analysis Preference Organization Repairs Turn Taking Adjacency Pairs Question and answer Farewell and farewell Offer and acceptance Accusation and admission News Interview Andrew Marr Show: Interview with David Cameron A Conversation Analysis of Question and Answer in Andrew Marr Show: Interview with David Cameron Question Realizations Answer Strategies Directness Initiative Adversarialness Assertiveness 1. Statement Prefaces 2. Multiple Questions 3. Follow-up Questions 1. Other-referencing frames 2. Self-referencing frames 1. Preface Tilt 2. Negative Questions 1. Global Adversarialness 2. Accountability Questions 1. Roundabout Trajectory 2. Minimal Answer plus Elaboration 3. Lexical Repetition Figure 1. Analytical Construct 38

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

A. Type of the Study

The research employed descriptive qualitative approach. It was appropriate because the aim of this research was to describe the phenomenon instead of making prediction or generalization. According to VanderStoep and Johnston 2009: 167, qualitative research does not claim generalization. It only focuses on the representation of the phenomenon. In addition, qualitative research is aimed at describing and explaining relationship, not giving label of population’s characteristics Mack et al, 2005: 3. However, this research also employed frequencies quantitative approach to support the data analysis. Although the aim of qualitative approach is to describe the phenomenon, there are four different paradigms in conducting qualitative research Prasad via Hennink, Hutter and Bailey, 2011: 10. The first is interpretive tradition. It refers to symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, ethnography, and phenomenology. Next is deep tradition which is divided into semiotics and structuralism. The third is critical tradition including feminism, historical materialism, and critical theory. The last is ‘post’ tradition which covers postmodernism, post-structuralism, and post-colonialism. This research was categorized as interpretive tradition. The phenomenon interpreted in this research was Andrew Marr Show: Interview with David Cameron. By employing descriptive qualitative research, the researcher revealed question realizations spoken by the interviewer. In