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In example (70), the media frame is explicitly referred to in the opening section in the phrasefull-length interview, thus indexing the media-specific discourse genre, and by a use of the name of the program, On the Record. These media frame presuppositions are further commented upon by the interviewer's introduction of the interviewee äs 'the shadow Secretary of State for Employment', which has the communicative function of implicitly addressing the second-frame audience. This is supported by the interviewer's direct gaze. Only then, is the encounter reframed by the interviewer's genre-specific employment of the question/answer adjacency pair, i.e., the first political interview question. The interviewee ratifies the media references by directly responding to the political interview question and thereby implicitly accepts them. The second frame is thus assigned the Status of a plus-validity claim and attributed to the macro-validity claim's presuppositions. In example (71), the media frame is indexed by the Statement, 'now we're delighted to welcome the leader of the Labour Party Tony Blair'. Here, the Interviewer employs inclusive we to refer to both himself and the second-frame audience. Only then does he directly greet the interviewee ('good morning Tony'). Thereby he reframes the encounter and opens the first-frame interaction by asking the first political interview question, 'the one thing you'll be hoping for is that there won't be a rogue poll on Thursday'. Again, the Interviewer ratifies and accepts the interviewee's references to the media frame by directly responding to the interviewee's first-frame question. But how is the media frame referred to in the ciosing section of the political interview? In the following examples, there are implicit references to the media frame manifest in the interviewer's employment of inclusive we to refer to both the Interviewer and the second-frame audience. Additionally, the Interviewer thanks the interviewee for having participated in the encounter, signalled by the minimal response 'thank you' in examples (72), (73), and (74), the more elaborate variants 'thank you very much' in examples (75) and (76), and 'thank you for talking to us' in example (77), and the specification 'thank you for being so very straight with us' in example (78). In all instances, the ciosing section is closed by the interviewees' routine response thank you: