This paper presents the features of the journalistic / media / press discourse according to English, French and Romanian experts in discourse theory. The authors provide the definition of the term and the two main types of journalistic discourse (interview and reportage), identify what a journalistic discourse can do: act on, assign, be, build, define, ensure, have, include, level, turn, or use, and point to both positive and negative functions of this type of discourse. Journalistic discourse (“a communicative act of particular linguistic phenomenon that requires some special norms and reflects on social, cultural, political, ideological aspects” – Chaal, 2019, 19) has become, since the 1970s, an object of study for political science (“the branch of knowledge that deals with the state and systems of government; the scientific analysis of political activity and behaviour” – English Oxford Living Dictionaries), sociology (“the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society; the study of social problems” – idem), and sociopolitics (“the ways in which politics and relations of power are constituted through an authoritative discourse on the social.” – Ssorin-Chaikov, 2015) (Krieg, 2000, 75). It consists in any discourse that appears in audio, audio-video, and written media, and has two major forms – the interview and the reportage.

journalistic discourse, interview, reportage, features

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