This study presents an analysis of hedging strategies employed by the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, in political interviewing. Using a discourse-analytic procedure, the study investigates a corpus of 22 press interviews and verifies the presence of hedging-related discursive strategies in the President’s responses. It also identifies four specific interrelated discourse moves: ‘Reformulating the interviewer’s question’, ‘Expanding the scope of the original question sequence’, ‘Switching the time frame of the question context’, ‘Recasting the question reference from specific to general terms’. It is suggested that President Obama manages to avoid explicit responses to questions about controversial issues through hedging strategies, which shift the focus of the interviewer’s question to different interrogative formats, time frames and reference perspectives.

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政治面试中的套期保值

本研究分析了美国前总统巴拉克奥巴马在政治采访中采用的对冲策略。使用话语分析程序，该研究调查了 22 次新闻采访的语料库，并验证了总统的回应中是否存在与对冲相关的话语策略。它还确定了四个具体的相互关联的话语动作：“重新制定面试官的问题”、“扩大原始问题序列的范围”、“切换问题上下文的时间框架”、“将问题参考从特定术语重新转换为一般术语”。建议奥巴马总统通过对冲策略来避免对有争议的问题的明确回答，将面试官的问题的重点转移到不同的询问格式，