| Titre | Meurtre, inceste et énigme. Étude comparée de presse | |
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| Auteur | Georges Auclair | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1966, 7-2 | |
| Page | 215-228 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Georges Auclair : Murder, incest and enigma. A comparative press study.
The author compares the different ways the episodes of the same news items are related in the « thrill press ». The method employed is mainly structural : the headlines are analysed as « constituant unities » the varied possible combinations of which are regarded as producing, at the connotation level, various significations. It reveals, at least for the chosen news, that the French press is divided into two main connotation systems : one giving the preference to the functions and their concatenation, and which seems to have an « intellectual » or detective predominance ; the other emphasizes « action » and « roles » and seems to have an « affective » predominance ? tragic or melodramatic ; this last system characterises more specifically the popular type press. The relative importance of an information inside the brief-news column does not vary, so to speak, from one newspaper to another, whether it belongs to the serious type or to the popular type press. To account for the somewhat anthropological evidence, which has been brought out, the notion of « connotativity» is used, meaning the amount of connotation an event has. This notion could eventually be the link between semiology and sociography. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsoc_0035-2969_1966_num_7_2_1117 |
