As entrevistas televisivas

Abstract

Television interviews are interactional activities that deserve special attention, because they portray the way in which each participant understands the place that they fill in it according to the way their identity is categorized, noticing the way in which they choose to adopt adequate behaviours at any given time and how they appropriate the resources they have to perform the tasks they intend to perform. But, first and foremost, television interviews show that, in the interactional activi- ties that take place in them, people apply certain rules and obey specific norms of the environment which is constituted by the functioning of the television device itself. Hence, it is an activity that portrays, not only how the television environment is constituted, but also the way in which the people involved in it appropriate the rules and norms that regulate the interactions that take place in it.