5.1 Diana And Bashir Flashcards
Genre / mode?
Transcript of a BBC interview of Princess Diana; punctuation added after; contemporary journalism; prepared questions
Audience?
Fans of Diana / Bashir; those interested in current affairs; Panorama watchers; fans of Royal Family; global
Purpose?
To inform, entertain, expose Diana’s marriage to Charles; insight into Diana’s personal life
Diana’s voice?
Open, kind, patient, honest, polite, intimate
Bashir’s voice?
Rude, transactional, negatively polite, prying, respectful
The interview was credited with…
Ending Diana’s marriage to Charles
Slightly spontaneous,
Edited before being televised, some prepared questions
Generic conventions of interviews?
Longer turns taken by interviewee; transactional / tag questions; formal, possibly scripted; intimate; about a specific subject matter
(Bashir) ‘When you say indifferent, what do you mean?’
Echoes words, polite; declarative followed by interrogative, agenda setting; negative politeness, power imbalance; open question, desires intimacy and feeling
(Diana) ‘The seed is there, and I hope it will grow because knowledge is power’
Metaphors, child-appropriate; emotive language, desires change; connotations of new era, needed by royals; idiom / familiar collocation, easy to understand
(Diana) ‘To give affection, to make them feel important, to support them, to give them light in their dark tunnels.’
Asyndetic list; rule of three; juxtaposition to current monarchy; sense of class divide / otherness; dynamic verbs, action; lexical set of kindness; metaphor, idiom, familiar collocation- communicates with audience
(Diana) ‘I will fight for my children on any level for them to be happy and have peace of mind and carry out their duties’
Future tense, certainty; dynamic verb; repeated possessive; implies rebellion against Royals; desires safety for her children; obligations of royal, empathy, least important to Diana; polysyndetic list
