5.1- Anthology Text- Bashir and Diana interview

5.1- Anthology Text- Bashir and Diana interview

1. Purpose

   • Diana
     • Provide clarity
     • Answer the public's questions
   • Bashir
     • Facilitate Diana
     • Support Diana

2. Tone

   • Determined
   • Explanatory
   • Assertive

3. Mode

   • Written transcript of recorded TV interview
   • Prepared answers

4. Audience

   • Very large audience
   • Fans of Diana or the monarchy
   • Conspiracy theorists
   • Fans of Bashir

5. 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

6. 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