In this article, I take a discoursal perspective on intersubjectivity, exploring ways in which intersubjective meanings may be realized across texts, and the kinds of effects that arise from the combination of different forms. In particular, I focus on how writers may exploit intersubjective choices to enact interaction with their intended audience. I carry out an illustrative analysis on a small corpus of editorials from two British newspapers, one quality and one popular; and I demonstrate that there is clear connections between the readership of the two newspapers as described on their audience demographic webpages and the ways in which the editorial writers deploy the resources of interactant reference, mood and modality to construe different kinds of audience.
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White, Peter R.R.
2020. The putative reader in mass media persuasion – stance, argumentation and ideology. Discourse & Communication 14:4 ► pp. 404 ff.
Ye, Ning, Le Cheng & Yun Zhao
2019. Identity construction of suspects in telecom and internet fraud discourse: from a sociosemiotic perspective. Social Semiotics 29:3 ► pp. 319 ff.
Pilkington, Olga A.
2018. The fictionalized reader in popular science: reader engagement with the scientific community. Text & Talk 38:6 ► pp. 753 ff.
2016. ‘I never could forget my darling mother’: the language of recollection in a corpus of female Irish emigrant correspondence. The History of the Family 21:3 ► pp. 315 ff.
Jaakola, Minna, Maija Töyry, Merja Helle & Tiina Onikki-Rantajääskö
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