Journalistic quotation
Reported speech in newspapers from a semiotic-linguistic perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7477467 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph C Harry (Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1041-1058 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1464884913504258 |
| OpenAlex | W2096863990 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 28 |
A qualitative sample of newspaper articles covering Israeli commandos’ killing of passengers aboard a pro-Palestinian cargo ship was examined to discern how direct and indirect quotation modes function as propositional re-assertion. Using a linguistic-semiotic perspective, journalistic quotation was conceptualized as a series of verbal speech-act signs of three types: direct, free-indirect, and standard indirect quotation. These three essential quotation modes are shown to conform to the semiotic icon, index, and symbol, respectively, and at the linguistic level to entail either relatively neutral, ‘non-subjectivized’ re-assertion, or evaluative, ‘subjectivized’ re-assertion on the reporter’s part. Newspaper quotation segments are related to each variety of quotation, drawing out these co-occurring semiotic and linguistic characteristics to show how each quote mode performs as either a source or writer-centered double-duty speech act, allowing journalists within the traditional objectivity norm to variously provide relatively neutral or highly interpretive re-voicings of propositional assertions originally uttered by news sources
Assertion · Epistemology · Linguistics · Media studies · Merge (version control · Newspaper · Objectivity (philosophy · Perspective (graphical · Semiotics · Sociology · Symbol (formal · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |