This article examines the interactional functions of the so-prefaced answer, when used by interviewees in news and other political discussion broadcasts. Using the methods of conversation analysis, based on a data corpus of recent broadcasts from British mainstream television, the analysis shows that the so-preface functions in a cluster of related ways within the question-answer discourse structure of the political news interview. Specifically, it is used to reset or reframe the prior question from a standpoint of epistemic authority, enabling the interviewee to answer on their terms rather than the interviewer’s.

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“所以我的位置是……”

本文研究了被采访者在新闻和其他政治讨论广播中使用的前言答案的交互功能。使用对话分析的方法，基于英国主流电视最近播出的数据语料库，分析表明，在政治新闻采访的问答话语结构中，序言以一组相关的方式起作用。具体来说，它用于从认知权威的角度重新设置或重新构建先前的问题，使受访者能够根据他们的条件而不是访问者的条件进行回答。