This article studies the use of ‘hal taʔlaam’ (‘did you know’, hereafter) questions by the interviewer (IR) as a discursive strategy to block the interviewees’ (IEs’) agenda and stance in Aljazeera’s ‘The Opposite Direction’, a weekly news interview program that broadcasts live in Arabic on Aljazeera. The show has been on the air since Aljazeera’s inception, in the mid 1990s. The show hosts two guests with opposing political views, who are pitted against each other in a heated discussion as they represent and defend their own political and institutional affiliation. This article shows how IR uses ‘did you know’ questions to express adversarialness with his interviewees. The article argues that IR uses this type of questioning as an agenda blocking practice that the IR orients to as confrontational. The dataset examined in this article shows that ‘did you know’ questions do not provide any new information, nor does it seem to expect a response from the addressee. In fact, they are regularly used by the IR in this specific program to provide an account for previous turns that did not receive the desired response from the IE. They are lengthy, said in clear, loud Standard Arabic, and they typically embed ‘hostile presuppositions’ and confrontational messages. For the analysis presented here, 20, 50-minute episodes from ‘The Opposite Direction’ are examined following Conversation Analysis as the analytic method.

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阿拉伯语新闻采访中“你知道吗”问题的去从属关系使用：以半岛电视台的“相反方向”为例

本文研究了面试官 (IR) 使用“hal taʔlaam”（“你知道吗”，以下简称“你知道吗”）问题作为一种话语策略来阻止受访者（IE）在半岛电视台的“相反方向”中的议程和立场，每周一次的新闻采访节目，在半岛电视台以阿拉伯语直播。自 1990 年代中期半岛电视台成立以来，该节目一直在播出。节目邀请了两位政见对立的嘉宾，他们在激烈的讨论中相互对立，代表和捍卫自己的政治和机构派别。这篇文章展示了 IR 如何使用“你知道吗”的问题来表达对他的受访者的敌意。这篇文章认为，IR 使用这种类型的提问作为一种议程阻止实践，IR 将其定位为对抗性的。本文中检查的数据集显示，“您知道吗”问题不会提供任何新信息，似乎也不期望收件人做出回应。事实上，IR 在此特定程序中经常使用它们来为之前未从 IE 收到所需响应的回合提供说明。它们很长，用清晰、响亮的标准阿拉伯语说，它们通常嵌入“敌对预设”和对抗性信息。对于此处介绍的分析，“相反方向”中的 20 集 50 分钟将在对话分析作为分析方法之后进行检查。在此特定程序中，IR 经常使用它们来为之前未从 IE 收到所需响应的回合提供帐户。它们很长，用清晰、响亮的标准阿拉伯语说，它们通常嵌入“敌对预设”和对抗性信息。对于此处介绍的分析，“相反方向”中的 20 集 50 分钟将在对话分析作为分析方法之后进行检查。在此特定程序中，IR 经常使用它们来为之前未从 IE 收到所需响应的回合提供帐户。它们很长，用清晰、响亮的标准阿拉伯语说，并且通常嵌入“敌对预设”和对抗性信息。对于此处介绍的分析，“相反方向”中的 20 集 50 分钟将在对话分析作为分析方法之后进行检查。