Les didascalies de l’énonciateur cité dans le journal Le Monde

• Main Author: Elżbieta Biardzka
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editura Universitatii din Oradea 2012-12-01
• Series: Studii de Lingvistica
• Subjects: quoted speaker; reported speech; prosopography; reporter’s comment; vocal portraits
• Online Access: http://studiidelingvistica.uoradea.ro/docs/2-2012/pdf_uri/Biardzka.pdf
• ISSN: 2248-2547; 2284-5437

This paper deals with the visual, vocal and emotional portraits of the quoted speakers (énonciateurs cités, EC) as they are depicted by journalists in Le Monde. These portraits can be divided into two groups: in the first one, the speakers are presented without prosopography, and in the second, they emerge from the text throughprosopographic elements. The group of speakers without prosopographyis itself divided into two sub-groups: notorious speakers and visuallyanonymous speakers. In the prosopographically presented speakers’group, the reporter presents details of the physical appearance, butcan also describe his proxemic or vocal behaviour of the speaker, which can be near to the vocal ethos or remain at the level of vocal gesture. The speakers (and their speech) are then depicted and classified: some seem to be more reliable and more famous than the others and then seem to have a certain level of power, some seem more trivial, or even more ridiculous and petty.