Active participation within written argumentation: metadiscourse and editorialist’s authority  

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Le, Elisabeth

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 36 no. 4 (Apr. 2004), page 687-714.
Topik: Argumentation; Audience; Authority; Editorial; Le Monde; Metadiscourse; Polyphony
Fulltext: Le_Elisabeth.pdf (301.18KB)

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This paper aims to demonstrate how the elite newspaper, Le Monde, constructs active participation within its editorials’ argumentation to establish its authority. This active participation is revealed through the analysis ofthree metadiscursive categories, evidentials, person markers and relational markers, in connection with the editorials’ argumentative structure. It appears that Le Monde’s editorialists present themselves as responsible and competent journalists, as representatives ofpublic opinion, and as independent and committed intellectuals in the French tradition. These strategies attest to Le Monde’s persuasive abilities in playing one part ofits audience (public opinion) against the other (ruling elite), or appealing to them together on a matter off oreign policy. In conclusion, the role ofcontext in the use ofevidentials, person markers and relational markers in editorials is underlined; the question ofa theoretical framework for media audience is raised; and the role of world guardian of ‘‘Truth, Justice, Reason and Universality’’ that is apparent in Le Monde’s polyphonic discourse is critically questioned.

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