Affiliative Other Initiated Repeats (AOIRs) in Arabic broadcast news interviews: The case of Aljazeera's “The Opposite Direction”
This paper investigates how the interviewer (IR) employs repeats of his interviewees' (IEs') prior turns to further their (IEs') agenda and stance in Aljazeera's al-itijaah al-mu'akis (‘The Opposite Direction’, hereafter).