Responding to Questions at Press Conferences

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Responding to Questions at Press Conferences is written by Peng Wu and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9027253269 (ISBN 10) and 9789027253262 (ISBN 13).

Responding to Questions at Press Conferences makes clear how the spokespersons at China’s diplomatic press conferences maneuver strategically in defining the issues in the empirical counterpart of the confrontation stage when responding to the journalists’ questions and how this confrontational maneuvering is meant to be instrumental in convincing the intended audience. The detailed and systematic analysis of the various modes of confrontational maneuvering adopted by the spokespersons elucidate how China’s recently established “progressive” diplomatic style is shaped by its spokespersons’ argumentative discourse.