Le rôle des noms propres dans les détournements : Le cas des bandeaux dans un journal télévisé satiriqu

• Authors: Davis Laura

Title variants

EN

The Role of Proper Names in Detournements: The Case of Lower-Thirds in a Satirical News Broadcast

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

The figure of detournement can be defined as a dialogic phenomenon resulting from the embedding of two utterances into a single utterance. This study is focused on a specific use of this figure: the case of the lower-third in the satirical news broadcast genre. Using a corpus of 56 occurrences from the French TV show, Les Guignols de l’Info, we investigate the role of proper names in the construction of the implicit dialogic meaning inherent to detournements. Our hypothesis is that the spatially hierarchical structure of the two segments which form the lower-third, i.e. a spatially higher segment containing a proper name and a spatially lower one containing an utterance, corresponds to an enunciative hierarchy, in which the interpretation of the second segment relies on the first. We explore two functions that arise from this distinct structure: the nomination of the habitual user(s) of the proper name(s) and the attribution of direct reported speech to the said individual(s). Our aim is to show how these two functions are the result of a dialogic interaction between multiple discourses, activated by the different elements of which the lower-thirds are composed.

Keywords

EN

proper name; detournement; dialogism; satirical news broadcast

• Publisher: Komisja Nauk Filologicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Oddział we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Academic Journal of Modern Philology
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 9
• Pages: 79-90

Contributors

author

Davis Laura

• Praxiling UMR 5267, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3

Identifiers

DOI

doi:10.34616/ajmp.2020.9