Stylistic variation in the French press speech
A textbook case: the chronicle of justice business in France Cover Image

LA VARIATION STYLISTIQUE DANS LE DISCOURS FRANÇAIS DE PRESSE. UN CAS D’ÉCOLE: LA CHRONIQUE DES AFFAIRES DE JUSTICE EN FRANCE
Stylistic variation in the French press speech A textbook case: the chronicle of justice business in France

Author(s): Elisabeta Nicolescu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Vasiliana ’98
Summary/Abstract: The French media has experienced a soaring evolution in the lastdecades, with an impressive stylistic diversity of somespecialized forms of discourse. As an example, this paperexplores a journalistic species with a glorious tradition whichnowadays undergoes an amazing stylistic refinement. Theconcept of stylistic variation (in an extensive sense) refers tovarious forms of sequential structuring of the text as found intoday’s standard legal review. This paper uses texts by StéphaneDurand-Souffland, a Le Figaro legal columnist.