The Strategy of Empathy in Teresa Torańska’s Interviews. A New Philosophy of the Journalist’s Interview Cover Image

Strategia empatii w wywiadach Teresy Torańskiej. O nową filozofię rozmowy dziennikarskiej
The Strategy of Empathy in Teresa Torańska’s Interviews. A New Philosophy of the Journalist’s Interview

Author(s): Kaja Rostkowska-Biszczanik
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: interview; empathy; communication strategy; genre; dialogue

Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to describe the strategy of empathy applied by Teresa Torańska in the interviews she collected in the volume Są [They Are]. Through her attitude the journalist gives the reader an intimate view of the interlocutor and offers insight into his/her most personal experiences. The strategy of empathy includes Teresa Torańska’s choices concerning stylistics, pragmatic endeavours regarding request and apology, silence, and picturing the world in microscale. Thanks to such an approach, the journalistic interview appears as a genre-mission, in which we locate a model for encountering the Other.

  • Issue Year: 28/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 241-252
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish