Deictic Representations of Person in Media Discourse

• Authors: Azad Mammadov
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper aims to analyze the deictic representations of person in the British and American media discourse, mostly focusing on such genres and subgenres as newspaper articles, interviews, letters to editors, opinions, headlines and advertisements. For this purpose, we wish to introduce a theoretical framework for the study and then we hope to present certain ways in which deictic expressions (personal, possessive and reflexive pronouns) represent person. Theoretical framework for our study is based upon the socio-cognitive approach, which gives priority to individual practices and subjectivity over social practices in discourse as well as the definition of discourse based on knowledge. The reason why we focus on the media discourse is obvious. The high degree of personalized conceptualization and contextualization dominated by a large number of subjective factors prevail in the above-mentioned genres and subgenres of media discourse. The deictic representations of person play the key role in this process.

Keywords

EN

person; subjectivity; media discourse; personal, possessive and reflexive pronouns; discursive strategy; cognitive effect

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Journal: Lodz Papers in Pragmatics
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 245-259

Dates

published

2014-12-29

received

2014-10-24

revised

2014-11-15

accepted

2014-12-23

online

2014-12-29

Contributors

author

Azad Mammadov

• Azerbaijan University of Languages, Department of General Linguistics, Baku, R. Behbudovstr, 134, Azerbaijan

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/lpp-2014-0013