Titre : | The rhetoric of numbers in front-page journalism: how numbers contribute to the melodramatic in the popular press |
Auteurs : | I. ROEH ; S. FELDMAN |
Type de document : | Périodique |
Année de publication : | 1984 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 0165-4888 |
Format : | 347-368 |
Note générale : | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Jan 1984, vol. 4, n°4, p.347-368 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | SHS (Sciences humaines et sociales / Humanities and social sciences) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés PRESSE ; COMMUNICATION ; INFORMATION |
Résumé : | Numbers are usually taken to be unloaded, neutral, transparent sign for objects of reality. Newspapers use them as agents of a rhetoric of objectivity; that is, they contribute to an impression of nothing-but-the-facts journalism. This paper, however, suggests that numbers can be and are used as a stylistic device, as a rhetorical means that contribute to a melodramatic world picture. It is found that in the popular press numbers are repeatedly linked to patterns of presentation that appeal more to readers’ emotions than reflecting true-facts-of-reality. Two Hebrew dailies provide the corpus in which a significant difference is found in the use of numbers: while the prestigious paper typically employs numbers for their referential value in unmarked stylistic patterns, the popular daily tends to use them in symmetrical patterns where rhetorical force, or, rather, emotional appeal is more important than mere information. [Résumé de la revue] |
Domaine : | Hors addiction / No addiction |
Refs biblio. : | 19 |
Affiliation : | Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel |
Cote : | A00639 |
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