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Controversy as News DiscourseReporting Controversy in Constructed Dialogue

Controversy as News Discourse: Reporting Controversy in Constructed Dialogue [Journalists use constructed dialogue to narrate controversies in their reporting. They develop interlocutor profiles, constructing dialogues among participants whom they nominate and voice through reported speech. These are extended pragmatic event formulas, and through them, journalists provide a narrated location for public controversies. They regularly narrate dialogue among interlocutors who have not necessarily shared physical proximity, addressed one another directly, provided public, on-the-record statements that are relevant, nor engaged a common issue. While they do construct decision making dialogues, journalists do not necessarily narrate controversy according to the norms and standards promoted in the discourse arts. In most cases, doing so would tend to put journalists at odds with their own professional norms, which stress the reporting of events through assiduous display of empirical grounding in the statements of sources. By narrating controversy in constructed dialogue, journalists share with the discourse arts the use of a dialogue model.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Controversy as News DiscourseReporting Controversy in Constructed Dialogue

Part of the Argumentation Library Book Series (volume 19)
Cramer, Peter A.
Controversy as News Discourse — May 9, 2011
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
ISBN
978-94-007-1287-4
Pages
139 –175
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-1288-1_5
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Abstract

[Journalists use constructed dialogue to narrate controversies in their reporting. They develop interlocutor profiles, constructing dialogues among participants whom they nominate and voice through reported speech. These are extended pragmatic event formulas, and through them, journalists provide a narrated location for public controversies. They regularly narrate dialogue among interlocutors who have not necessarily shared physical proximity, addressed one another directly, provided public, on-the-record statements that are relevant, nor engaged a common issue. While they do construct decision making dialogues, journalists do not necessarily narrate controversy according to the norms and standards promoted in the discourse arts. In most cases, doing so would tend to put journalists at odds with their own professional norms, which stress the reporting of events through assiduous display of empirical grounding in the statements of sources. By narrating controversy in constructed dialogue, journalists share with the discourse arts the use of a dialogue model.]

Published: May 9, 2011

Keywords: News Article; News Event; Matrix Clause; Authoritative Source; Narrate Event

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