News put into words in the journalistic discourse. The case of Notre-Dame-des-Landes Cover Image

L'actualité mise en mots dans le discours journalistique. Le cas du conflit de Notre-Dame-des-Landes
News put into words in the journalistic discourse. The case of Notre-Dame-des-Landes

Author(s): Elżbieta Pachocińska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Semantics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: media event; social sense; linguistic units circulanting; toponymy; Notre-Dame-des-Landes

Summary/Abstract: In the press discourse, we may observe three main discursive strategies which construct the social sense of the events in the media. There are the activity of nomination, actualization of information and insertion of antagonists discourses. These problems will be presented from the perspective of discursive semantics through the concepts proposed by S. Moirand (2007, 2014): media interdiscursive memory, discursive moment, word-event. They will show the dynamic construction of social sense of words which we called units circulating in the public sphere. The analysis is illustrated by the conflict on airport project at Notre-Dame-des-Landes which was abandon by the French government in 2018 after 50 years of citizens contestation.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 253-269
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: French