‘(laughs loudly) I don’t believe you’. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Print media question-answer interviews in the Dutch-speaking press in Belgium show a formal characteristic which is not widely spread in other languages: in the interviewee’s answers, often side comments made by the interviewer are incorporated between brackets. These comments are forms of metadiscourse (Hyland 2019) and we can consider them to be ‘asides’ in the sense Goffman (1981) assigned to the term. This study describes the different forms ...