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Digital and Written Quotations in a News Text: The Hybrid Genre of Political Opinion Review

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In this chapter, Johansson studies how digital quotations, such as tweets and video, are embedded in a news text. The analysis focuses on the characteristics and looks at the functions of the quotations in a single news text made up almost entirely of quotations. The communicative functions of these quotations vary from neutral (reporting information) to positive (praise/thanking) and negative (complaint/regret). They are organized in this way in different topical sections by a journalist who serves as a mediator between social media and readers. This type of news text is a political opinion review—a remix of quotations that establish relations cross-media. It represents polarized opinions in a struggle in the public sphere.

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    Moirand (2007, p. 12) defines news genres as “objectivisés” and “subjectivisés”—“objectifying and subjectifying” news genres. That is, she considers this a dynamic feature of news genres.

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    The quotative clause is underlined, and the quoted content is in quotation marks.

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Reactions to the retirement reform did not take long

  1. (a)

    Politics. As expected, the retirement reform did not take long to gather comments. As soon as the announcement was made in Matignon [the Prime Minister’s office] everybody gave their commentaries. But if the timing of the decision was surprising, that is, only a few minutes after the consultation of the social partners, the reactions were usual.

    In the ranks of the majority, there is a general satisfaction that is addressed to Jean-Marc Ayrault [Prime Minister]. There is even a competition in praises if one reads the commentaries of the spokespersons of the Socialist Party.

  2. (b)

    David Assouline

    @dassouline

    The Left shows that a reform can be fair, balanced and can allow us to make progress, for the Right, reform=hitting and regression

  • Frédérique Espagnac

    @FEspagnac

    :#Retirement JMAyrault [Prime Minister] proposes a structural, just and fair reform, allowing the finance of pensions in a sustainable and distributed way

  1. (c)

    This has what it takes: “The distribution [of costs] will save the system”, congratulates the First Secretary [of the Socialist Party] Harlem Désir.

    During the evening, one opposing voice was heard: that of Marie-Noëlle Lienemann, who works for the left wing of the party: “We cannot accept that we have to pay for 43 years,” declares this senator from Paris.

    As regards the ecological allies, they are very restrained. In a press release, the Ecologist Group in the Parliament “regrets” the absence of a global reform. But the ecological representatives are also pleased that “two red lines were not crossed”, notably relying on CSG [social charges (deductible from income tax)].

  2. (d)

    Opposition exposes pressure on taxes

    As for the right, it is much more critical. Its responsible persons started to repeat the refrain after the announcement of the Prime Minister on Sunday night on France 2. Two perspectives have been chosen…

  3. (e)

    Sébastien Huyghe

    @SebastienHuyghe

    #retirement new tax increases and rise of cost of work consequences= unemployment increases and inefficient financing

  • Gérard Darmanin

    @GDarmanin

    Inequality between different #retirement systems public/private and financing by +taxes. Still +taxes #PS

  • And the critique of the socialist party’s “cowardice”.

  1. (f)

    Valérie Debord

    @DebordValerie

    #Retirement the only solution of the government is to add to pressure on taxes through cowardice and popularity seeking

  • Yves Jégo

    @yvesjego

    New costs for firms. No convergence between public/private. Decrease in pensions in the future. #Reform without courage

  • Resumed by Jean-François Copé interviewed on TF1 [television channel]: “The Prime Minister threw a masque and showed clearly that this was unfortunately not a reform of retirement, but simply a rise in taxes, a rise in social security charges that will take place instead of retirement reform”.

  1. (g)

    Protest September 10th is on

    Social partners are also quite divided. While the CFDT [trade union] is content with the “achieved fair measures”, the president of Medef [employer’s organization], Pierre Gattaz, says in the Figaro [newspaper] that it is “a dangerous anti-reform”. This is also true for the CGT [labor union], but for totally opposing reasons. It [la centrale de Montreuil] says that it was not heard. “The Prime Minister did not care at all about our propositions” complains the Secretary, Eric Aubin. In consequence, the protest that it has planned for September 10th with Force Ouvrier [labor union] is on.

    The Left Front is going to come to the protest. Jean-Luc Mélechon confirmed on France 2 [television channel] that his movement has asked [people to come to] protest.

  2. (h)

    Video: Evening news with Jean-Luc Mélenchon

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Johansson, M. (2019). Digital and Written Quotations in a News Text: The Hybrid Genre of Political Opinion Review. In: Bou-Franch, P., Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (eds) Analyzing Digital Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92663-6_5

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