In affiliated news interviews, interviewees are both reporters and commentators, thus often caught in the dilemma of whether to interpret or report. Based on Stephen J. A. Ward’s theory of pragmatic objectivity, this article responds to this question by proposing a concept of discourse truth and applying it to the analysis of affiliated news interviews collected from BBC News at Ten. It is found that journalists in such interviews tend to achieve a sense of discourse truth through three primary discourse practices, including achieving journalistic authority, emphasizing authenticity of news and displaying journalistic neutrality. These practices are in turn realized through a variety of discourse strategies such as identity credentials, personalization, modality, third-party attribution and metadiscourse expressions. The results show that objectivity can be maintained through discourse truth, even when news is interpreted. Discourse truth can reflect the authenticity of talk to some extent. It is, however, not the fact itself, but the reality constructed in the news.

在附属新闻采访中，受访者既是记者又是评论员，因此经常陷入是口译还是报道的困境。基于斯蒂芬·贾·沃德（Stephen JA Ward）的务实客观性理论，本文通过提出话语真实性概念并将其应用于对10月份BBC新闻社收集的相关新闻采访的分析，对这一问题做出了回应。。结果发现，在这种采访中，记者倾向于通过三种主要的话语实践来获得话语真理感，包括获得新闻权威，强调新闻的真实性和表现出新闻中立。这些实践又通过各种话语策略来实现，例如身份凭证，个性化，情态，第三方归因和元话语表达。结果表明，即使在对新闻进行解释的情况下，也可以通过话语真理来保持客观性。话语真理可以在某种程度上反映谈话的真实性。但是，它不是事实本身，而是新闻中构建的现实。