Research Article

A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF LARRY BENSKY’S INTERVIEW WITH HAROLD PINTER

Volume: 8 Number: 2 October 30, 2021
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A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF LARRY BENSKY’S INTERVIEW WITH HAROLD PINTER

Abstract

Interview is a kind of conversation that is conducted for various purposes, including getting information and establishing an effective communication. A successful interview is achieved by the collaboration between the interviewer and interviewee, who is supposed to answer the questions asked by the former. As it is the interviewer who initiates and controls the interview, he/she has the superior position in an interview. Interviews are akin to drama in terms of discourse structure; therefore, they can be studied by using the methods of stylistics employed for analysing drama, including speech acts, turn-taking, and politeness. Larry Bensky’s interview with Harold Pinter (1966) displays the discursive relationship between the interviewer and interviewee. Speech acts give clues about the linguistic interaction between the interviewer and interviewee. While Bensky’s role is more limited to asking questions, Pinter generally provides information for the interviewer, thus Bensky, who depends on Pinter for information about his artistic life, is the less powerful participant in the interview. Turn-taking mechanisms used in the interview also show that Pinter is the powerful participant as it is Pinter who interrupts Bensky and controls speech turns in most cases by changing speech topics or evading Bensky’s questions about his art. Bensky, on the other hand, tries to resist Pinter’s interruptions and attempts to control the course of interview by threatening his negative and positive faces in a bald or redressed way. Pinter, in turn, threatens Bensky’s negative face either by not giving the answer he wants or preventing him from asking questions. The present study makes a stylistic analysis of the interview between Bensky and Pinter in order to explain the reasons why the two make peculiar linguistic choices.

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Details

Primary Language

English

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

October 30, 2021

Submission Date

April 29, 2021

Acceptance Date

September 16, 2021

Published in Issue

Year 2021 Volume: 8 Number: 2

APA
Düzgün, Ş. (2021). A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF LARRY BENSKY’S INTERVIEW WITH HAROLD PINTER. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 8(2), 241-254. https://izlik.org/JA94GM32YG
AMA
1.Düzgün Ş. A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF LARRY BENSKY’S INTERVIEW WITH HAROLD PINTER. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi. 2021;8(2):241-254. https://izlik.org/JA94GM32YG
Chicago
Düzgün, Şebnem. 2021. “A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF LARRY BENSKY’S INTERVIEW WITH HAROLD PINTER”. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 8 (2): 241-54. https://izlik.org/JA94GM32YG.
EndNote
Düzgün Ş (October 1, 2021) A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF LARRY BENSKY’S INTERVIEW WITH HAROLD PINTER. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 8 2 241–254.
IEEE
[1]Ş. Düzgün, “A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF LARRY BENSKY’S INTERVIEW WITH HAROLD PINTER”, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 241–254, Oct. 2021, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA94GM32YG
ISNAD
Düzgün, Şebnem. “A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF LARRY BENSKY’S INTERVIEW WITH HAROLD PINTER”. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 8/2 (October 1, 2021): 241-254. https://izlik.org/JA94GM32YG.
JAMA
1.Düzgün Ş. A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF LARRY BENSKY’S INTERVIEW WITH HAROLD PINTER. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi. 2021;8:241–254.
MLA
Düzgün, Şebnem. “A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF LARRY BENSKY’S INTERVIEW WITH HAROLD PINTER”. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 8, no. 2, Oct. 2021, pp. 241-54, https://izlik.org/JA94GM32YG.
Vancouver
1.Şebnem Düzgün. A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF LARRY BENSKY’S INTERVIEW WITH HAROLD PINTER. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi [Internet]. 2021 Oct. 1;8(2):241-54. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA94GM32YG