On the production of a multimodal news item: An argumentative approach

Zampa, Marta; Bletsas, Marina

doi:10.1515/sem-2017-0149

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“…Besides a long tradition in reconstructing the formal structure of argumentation (starting in ancient times with Aristotle and reviving again from the 1950s on), nowadays, studies on the actual functioning of argumentation in its contexts of use are flourishing. Journalism is one of these, with work being done especially on argumentation in the newsmaking process (Burger & Delaloye, 2016;Luciani, Rocci & Zampa, 2015;Zampa, 2015Zampa, , 2017Zampa & Bletsas, 2018;Zampa & Musi, 2016;Zampa & Perrin, 2016). For what concerns the news product, the editorial has been at the center of scholarly attention (Gauthier, 2002;López Pan, 2015;Zampa, 2015Zampa, , 2017.…”

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Fragmentary narrative reasoning. On the enthymematic structure of journalistic storytelling

Zampa

Perrin

2018

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Journalists worldwide conceive of their work mostly as writing stories, because the narrative mode is extremely effective in delivering information to all social categories. Nonetheless, journalists hardly ever tell a whole story that complies with the criteria contemplated by narratology. Instead, they tell parts of a story and let the audience supply the rest, an operation made possible by the fact that narrative patterns are culturally shared by newswriters and their audiences. In this paper, we investigate some examples of fragmentary narratives as well as the journalists’ strategic reasons for using them, combining approaches to storytelling and to argumentation. The case studies are taken from Corriere del Ticino, the main Italian-language newspaper in Switzerland.

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Section: Argumentationmentioning

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Fragmentary narrative reasoning. On the enthymematic structure of journalistic storytelling

Zampa

Perrin

2018

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“…Studies of front pages have focused on the diachronic changes of the layout (Utt and Pasternack, 2003;López-Rabadán and Casero-Ripollés, 2012;Bucher, 2017), the framing strategies for the presentation of main stories (Hart, 2017), or the internal processes for the selection of featured stories during the socalled news conference (Reisner, 1992;Zampa and Bletsas, 2018). Scholars have also paid attention to the distinct ways in which the various constitutive elements of the front page (textual, visual, and graphic) are arranged in order to create a coherent and meaningful multimodal document.…”

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The front page as a canvas for multimodal argumentation: Brexit in the Greek press

Serafis,

Tseronis

2023

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In this paper, we analyze the front pages of mainstream Greek newspapers with the highest circulation reporting the official result of the Brexit referendum in 2016. Our analysis seeks to extract the standpoints and arguments that circulated in the Greek mainstream press on that day by studying the headlines and visuals on the front page. We study the front page not merely as an informative genre but crucially as an argumentative one, where the arguments can be reconstructed with the help of tools from argumentation theory combined with principles from multimodal critical discourse analysis. The proposed approach makes it possible to compare how the different ideological orientations in the Greek public sphere were steered by the representation of this piece of news. We show that, despite their ideological background, the newspapers under study converge to the construction of Brexit as a menacing phenomenon that puts the EU integration to the test and, as such, as an event that should have been avoided.

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On the production of a multimodal news item: An argumentative approach

Cited by 2 publications

References 18 publications

Fragmentary narrative reasoning. On the enthymematic structure of journalistic storytelling

Fragmentary narrative reasoning. On the enthymematic structure of journalistic storytelling

The front page as a canvas for multimodal argumentation: Brexit in the Greek press

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