News values and the information source: the discourse of eliteness and personalisation in the digital press

Lidia  Mañoso-Pacheco

doi:10.17851/1983-3652.13.1.3-19

Auteurs

Lidia Mañoso-Pacheco Universidade de Nebrija http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4798-2075

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.17851/1983-3652.13.1.3-19

Mots-clés :

discourse; eliteness; information source; news values; personalisation.

Résumé

This paper proposes a corpus-based examination of the discourse of eliteness and personalisation news values in the information source. To that end, the study compares digital news in British and Spanish corpora. The results reveal a tendency to quote elites, which are frequently constructed by means of recognised names from politics, inanimate references with broad scope and role labels in apposition. To a lesser extent, prestige is construed through status-indicating modifiers and allusion to place of work. Ordinary sources, however, are usually construed via indication of provenance, reference to family relationship and anaphoric allusions, mostly in British sources. It remains to be clarified whether the construal of these values is in consonance with the editorial stance of the newspaper.

Biographie de l'auteur

Lidia Mañoso-Pacheco, Universidade de Nebrija

Doutor em Lingüística Inglesa pela Universidade Complutense de Madrid, Espanha. Mestrado em Linguística Inglesa: Novas Aplicações e Comunicação Internacional pela mesma universidade, e é bacharel em Filologia Inglesa pela Universidade de Salamanca. Quanto à sua carreira de pesquisador, ele publicou para editoras e revistas internacionais e nacionais na área de Linguística do Discurso. Atualmente, é coordenadora da área de inglês da Universidade de Nebrija, onde trabalha como professora de graduação e mestrado da Faculdade de Letras e Educação.

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