<p>The study is focused on the interactional strategies used by interviewees in radio discourse, which are face-saving, relationship-securing and cooperative strategies. The interviewees’ speech is analysed according to their use of the selected discourse operators, which are the hedge <em>you know</em>, the personal pronoun <em>you</em>, personal address as well as greeting questions, information-seeking, reassuring and tag-questions. The results turned out to be almost similar to previous research. The face-saving strategy is shown to be male-dominant, while the relationship-securing and the cooperative strategies proved to have female dominance. The results are contrasted and reviewed by using two different kinds of normalization. The normalization is done both according to the percentage of the selected items and the percentage of the space used for every selected item and strategy.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:hig-5478 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Bergqvist, Hanna |
| Publisher | University of Gävle, Ämnesavdelningen för svenska språket och engelska |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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