P, dit X / P, X says dans le genre journalistique : entre effacement et brouillage des niveaux d’énoncé by Raluca NITA

“…The status of P is dependent on the journalistic genre in French and English and in most of the cases both the primary speaker and the reported speaker commit to the truth value of P. This reported speech is ambiguous and oscillates between the current speech situation and the reported speech situation on account of the place it can occupy in the text structure, of the type of article (general information, specific events, portrait of a public person) and of the reported speech structure and linguistic internal markers.…”
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