L'effacement énonciatif dans la presse contemporaine

Abstract

Sophie Marnette: Enunciative Deletion in the Contemporary Press. This article studies "enunciative effacement", i.e. the deleting of the speaking subject (locuteur) from his utterances (énoncés), in the contemporary French press. The analysis envisages how enunciative deletion is linked to reported speech in a corpus of journalistic texts including women's magazines, gossip magazines, newsmagazines and newspapers. Sophie Marnette first examines cases where the use of reported speech clearly places the journalist (i.e. the quoting speaker) in a situation of superenunciation vis-à-vis the quoted speaker, by commenting on his own discourse or that of the people he quotes, by erasing the origin of the quoted material, or by recontextualising it. Second, she highlights more complex cases where the journalist plays on both super- and subenunciation, by disappearing behind the quoted sources but displaying them through his own point of view (or that of the publication he writes for), so that one strategy can hide behind another.

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