Zusammenfassung der Ressource
5.1- Anthology Text- Bashir and Diana
interview
- Purpose
- Diana
- Provide clarity
- Answer the public's questions
- Bashir
- Facilitate Diana
- Support Diana
- Tone
- Determined
- Explanatory
- Assertive
- Mode
- Written transcript of recorded TV interview
- Prepared answers
- Audience
- Very large audience
- Fans of Diana or the monarchy
- Conspiracy theorists
- Fans of Bashir
- Annotations
- First person pronouns
- Separation from monarchy
- 'I want them to have an
understanding of
people's emotions,
people's insecurities,
people's distress, and
people's hopes and
dreams.'
- Lexical repetition
- Assertive tone
- Lexical set of
people's
inner lives
- '-the seed is there, and I
hope it will grow because
knowledge is power.'
- Metaphor for natural growth
- Determined, hopeful tone
- Maxim
- Very familiar phrase
- Emphatic
- Length of turn
- Diana has longer length of turn
- Higher status
- Conforms to interview conventions
- Bashir leads
- 'that's what matters, isn't it?'
- Tag question by Diana, subverts conventions
- Context
- Diana was a style icon
- Very well-liked
- Car crash in 1997
- Still married during interview (for 14 years)
- Married in 1981
- Diana was 18
- Charles was 30