Semi-direct speech in a journalistic text. The technique of “combining points of view”
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-10-90-100
Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of a structure functioning in the media text and representing a blend of direct and indirect speech and defined by a number of specialists as semi-direct speech. Relying on oral and written materials of the publishing house “Kommersant” 2000–2021, the author demonstrates both negative and positive qualities of semi-direct speech. In some cases, such a syntactic move creates difficulties in understanding the utterance, so as undesirable ambiguity. In other contexts, semi-direct speech does not provoke communication failures and provides additional expressiveness, giving the effect of combining the points of view of the journalist and the reader/listener or the journalist and the main character of the publication. That property of semi-direct speech makes it much-in-demand in modern media text, the distinctive feature of which is the striving for dialogueness.
About the Author
E. N. Basovskaya
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Evgeniya N. Basovskaya - Dr. of Sci. (Philology), professor.
Bld. 6, Miusskaya Square, Moscow, 125047
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Basovskaya E.N. Semi-direct speech in a journalistic text. The technique of “combining points of view”. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2021;(10):90-100. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-10-90-100
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