LINGUISTIC AND DISCOURSE FEATURES OF BROADCAST DISCUSSIONS AND INTERVIEWS IN PHILIPPINE ENGLISH

The study examined the linguistic and discourse features of broadcast discussions and interviews in Philippine English (PE). This is a corpus-based analysis anchored on several concepts and theories such as those by Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson (1974), Tannen (1987), and O’Keefe (2006). In addition, it adopted Genre theory of pedagogical perspectives (Bathia, 2002). The data consists of 30 sets of purposively selected broadcast discussions and interviews. Findings showed that in terms of linguistic features, words like filler/discourse and stance markers, intensifiers and repetition play a significant role in the institutional talk as they signal point of view, attitudes and emotions. Moreover, hypotactic structure was dominant primarily on the socio-political and socio-economic data as speakers laid facts, support arguments, and clarify concepts. Likewise, parataxis, idioms, and figurative language were evident for impressive effect which were observed on socio-political and socio-cultural data. Further, code-switching was apparent as the talk transgressed from formal to informal conversation as participants were aware that the talk was designed for an overhearing audience. In addition, the roles of the interviewer and interviewee were definitive based on the turn-taking organization and sequence. Similarly, interlocutors have shown conduct as they comply with the rules and procedures of the institutional talk. In terms of linguistic features, it is recommended that intensive study be done as there are a large number of lexical and syntactic features present in the data. Likewise, it is recommended that further study on discourse and media landscape be conducted as there are other criteria that need to be investigated.