TY - JOUR
T1 - Disputing While Covering a Dispute on Television News
T2 - Discursive Devices and their Interpretation by Viewers
AU - Shukrun-Nagar, Pnina
N1 - Funding Information:
The study was made possible thanks to the support of the scholarship program of The Second Authority for Television and Radio in Israel. I’m grateful to Prof. Roni Henkin, Prof, Elda Weizman, Prof. Yishai Tobin and Ms. Tzippy Parnassa for their important inputs.
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - This paper discusses the potential of semantic, pragmatic and grammatical devices used in the Israeli television news coverage of a dispute to promote one agenda, negate a contradictory one and position the correspondent as a participant in the dispute. Moreover, I argue that viewers of news identify at least some of these devices and attribute an argumentative role to them. To support this, I analyze questionnaires in which native speakers relate to a specific news item, focusing on the three most common devices interpreted: implicatures, emotionality and textual planning. The discussion sheds light on dialogical interactions between, first, correspondents and their addressees; second, between the correspondents’ words and their co-texts, contexts and other occurrences of these words or their synonyms in public discourse. The corpus includes 19 items on a struggle between ultra-Orthodox and secular Jews in Israel broadcast in 2009 on Israel’s Channel 2 television news.
AB - This paper discusses the potential of semantic, pragmatic and grammatical devices used in the Israeli television news coverage of a dispute to promote one agenda, negate a contradictory one and position the correspondent as a participant in the dispute. Moreover, I argue that viewers of news identify at least some of these devices and attribute an argumentative role to them. To support this, I analyze questionnaires in which native speakers relate to a specific news item, focusing on the three most common devices interpreted: implicatures, emotionality and textual planning. The discussion sheds light on dialogical interactions between, first, correspondents and their addressees; second, between the correspondents’ words and their co-texts, contexts and other occurrences of these words or their synonyms in public discourse. The corpus includes 19 items on a struggle between ultra-Orthodox and secular Jews in Israel broadcast in 2009 on Israel’s Channel 2 television news.
KW - Covert messages
KW - Discursive devices
KW - Dispute
KW - News discourse
KW - Otherness
KW - Questionnaires
KW - Ultra-Orthodox (Haredim)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84989389972&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1075/ld.3.2.04shu
DO - 10.1075/ld.3.2.04shu
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84989389972
SN - 2210-4119
VL - 3
SP - 208
EP - 233
JO - Language and Dialogue
JF - Language and Dialogue
IS - 2
ER -