Titres de presse et langue de pouvoir

Press titles and the language of power. This article is a reformulation of a paper given at the Paris, november 1984 symposium, "1984: Orwell and the language question". Instead of considering different titles from several newspapers as helping to constitute a whole, or an inter-discourse (production viewpoint), each individual title is taken as derived from this whole and individualized within it (reading viewpoint). Press titles reviews, such as can be heard on the wireless, are treated an an analogon for this whole, partly illustrating the way it works. In order to show how the press inter-discourse moves one from event (just something happening somewhere) to fact (the source of any discourse about... but present in the very discourse) , our examples deal with the future (the preparation of the June 1984 French national demonstration in support of private schools). This very passage from event to fact is the source in our set of titles of a minimum language of power. And it therefore becomes irrelevant whether the event does take place or not

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