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This contribution deals with the effects of the increasing use of video clips on
television interviews with politicians, in particular concerning the realisation
of question-answer sequences after the screening of a video clip. It investigates
how these clips support interviewers to achieve their main goal: to
solicit newsworthy information in a manner that is comprehensible and
attractive to TV viewers. A corpus of interview excerpts with video clips in a
Dutch daily late-night talk show demonstrates that video clips can be an
addition to or even a substitution of verbal options to fulfil five functions of
political interviewer talk. It is shown how video clips are able to establish and
disclose shared knowledge (common ground), secure topical focus, help
maintain interviewer-neutralism, amplify the ‘liveliness’ of the interview and
prevent politicians from being evasive in adversarial cases.