The objective of this research is to verify, through the use of a descriptive approach and a content analysis, the nature and degree of proximity of discursive stereotypes in journalistic writings from both Quebec and English Canada, more specifically, in the organization of the enunciation processes, the use of authentication and persuasion standards and the positioning of different points of view and centres of interest. The corpus of sixty articles is drawn from six mainstream newspapers: two English Canadian dailies and two Quebec newspapers, as well as two French newspapers serving as a control sample. A comparative analysis of the corpus reveals a proximity between the articles found in the Quebec newspapers and those from the English Canadian dailies. This similarity takes on several aspects. Regarding the enunciation processes, the four Canadian newspapers use more direct quotations than the two French dailies, in which there is a greater tendency to use the commentary function. An analysis of the transitional elements shows that the English and French newspapers in the Canadian corpus use a particular articulation based on an alternation between a direct or indirect quotation of a protagonist and an account of the facts, while the French newspapers use this type of construction less frequently. Moreover, a review of the rhetorical processes demonstrates a general tendency towards the respective homogeneity of the French and Canadian corpuses. Finally, an analysis of the focalization is based on a much smaller "sample" (one article from each newspaper), such that it would be more risky to assert any emerging trends. It is still a fad that a review of the modalizers well illustrates the impressionistic propensity of the French articles, compared to the Canadian ones. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/10310 |
| Date | January 1996 |
| Creators | De Champlain, Jean. |
| Contributors | Brisset, Annie, |
| Publisher | University of Ottawa (Canada) |
| Source Sets | Université d’Ottawa |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 145 p. |
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