The article analyzes debut interviews of female Israeli politicians, in which the interviewees are faced with questions or statements that imply that their gender, ethnicity or background prevent them from fulfilling their function as politicians successfully, in accordance with the “Gendered mediation thesis” (GoodYear-Grant 2013). We focus on the interviewees’ responses to these questions, and particularly on how grammatically negative utterances are deployed in the service of coping with the presuppositions directed at them. The analysis indicates that the negative utterances do not carry the full weight of rejection of implied presuppositions. Moreover, in some cases negative utterances are used by the speakers as part of a hedging strategy. By describing the role of negation in debut interviews of female Israeli politicians, the paper aims to advance a more comprehensive understanding of linguistic patterns used by women, and other silenced groups, to cope with biased representation.

中文翻译：

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“长得漂亮有帮助吗？”

文章分析了以色列女性政治家的首次采访，其中受访者面临的问题或陈述暗示其性别、种族或背景阻碍她们成功履行政治家的职能，根据“性别调解论”（固特异） -格兰特 2013）。我们关注受访者对这些问题的回答，特别是如何使用语法上的否定话语来应对针对他们的预设。分析表明，负面言论并没有完全否定隐含的预设。此外，在某些情况下，说话者会使用负面言论作为对冲策略的一部分。通过描述否定在以色列女性政治家首次采访中的作用，本文旨在促进对女性和其他沉默群体所使用的语言模式的更全面的理解，以应对有偏见的代表性。