This paper examines the role of assessments in the design of questions and answers in news interview settings on two Arabic networks. It employs a conversation analytic approach to observe what actions assessments perform and which are the most frequently accomplished. The data consist of 28 h of recorded Arab news interviews from four shows: ‘Special Interview’ and ‘Without Bounds’ on Aljazeera and ‘Point of Order’ and ‘Special Interview’ on Al-Arabiya. The findings show that assessments are a prolific interactional resource that can be used in the service of achieving diverse actions that are relevant to the interactional activity of providing questions and introducing answers in news interview settings. Interviewers provide a controversial style of questioning by proffering assessments to perform several actions, such as displaying criticism, introducing accusations and eliciting socio-political positioning, whereas interviewees produce them to provide defence against criticism, divert accountability and display socio-political positioning.

本文探讨了评估在两个阿拉伯网络新闻采访设置中的问题和答案设计中的作用。它采用对话分析方法来观察评估执行的操作以及最常完成的操作。数据包括来自四个节目的 28 小时录制的阿拉伯新闻采访：半岛电视台的“特别采访”和“无界”以及阿拉伯电视台的“秩序点”和“特别采访”。研究结果表明，评估是一种丰富的互动资源，可用于实现与在新闻采访环境中提供问题和引入答案的互动活动相关的各种行动。面试官提供一种有争议的提问方式，通过提供评估来执行多项行动，例如表达批评，