Proximization and dialogue in Internet news texts and comments
The paper presents the results of an empirical study on proximization approached as a dialogue between journalists and
readers of Internet media texts and online comments. In this way the paper shows a practical application of the research programme, whose
tenets I presented elsewhere (
Kowalski 2018), in relation to Polish and Romanian reciprocal media
coverage on the winter 2016/2017 protests in the two countries, and follow-up online comments. The analysis shows that participants used
proximization for different communicative purposes (descriptive or evaluative), for which they employed different reportoires of
proximization strategies (categorization, domestication, construing hybrid IDC/ODC worlds, historical analogies, and references to cultural
stereotypes). As a result, there was no consensus on a shared Discourse Space, and alternative Discourse Spaces were negotiated in the
online dialogue.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Theory and literature review
- 2.1Proximization theory
- 2.2Proximization and dialogicity in news discourse
- 2.3Discourse strategies of proximization
- 3.Materials
- 3.1The corpus
- 3.2Reciprocal media coverage of Poland and Romania
- 3.3Summary of 2016/2017 protests in Poland and Romania
- 4.Analysis: Discourse strategies of proximization in Polish and Romanian Internet media texts and media texts’ comments
- 4.1Categorization
- 4.2Domestication
- 4.3Hybrid IDC/ODC worlds
- 4.4Historical analogies
- 4.5Dialogue with stereotypes
- 5.Conclusion
- Notes
-
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