The Principle of Relevance in French press discourse on the example of the noun message Cover Image

Le principe de pertinence dans le discours journalistique sur l’exemple du nom message
The Principle of Relevance in French press discourse on the example of the noun message

Author(s): Elżbieta Pachocińska
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Media studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Communication studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: the Principle of Relevance; French press discourse; meaning of the noun message; semiotic message

Summary/Abstract: This paper concentrates on the functions of the noun message in press discourse. It is shown that by using this noun the journalist or politician fulfills the Principle of Relevance (Sperber, Wilson 1989) by focusing the attention of lecturer/hearer on his informative and communicative intentions, the most important from his perspective. These intentions are interpreted as a sense of message, in discursive terms: quotations, indirect speech, explications, reformulations, markers of intertextuality and interdiscursivity. The last purpose of this paper is to analyse some aspects of nonverbal political message. The journalist interprets the sense of gestures, behaviour, decisions, etc., which convey some political meaning through the recognition of informative and communicative intentions of politicians in specific context in which communication takes place.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 319-333
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: French