Schürgers, Elise
2025.
Meta-discursive Formulas A Subtype of Keywords and its Pragmatic Effects: The Case of ‘Fake News’ in the Francophone Press.
Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies
8
, pp. 217-240.
10.18573/jcads.141
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Abstract
This article argues that, in socio-discursive studies on keywords, it is worth examining not only the fluctuating meaning of those keywords (which is what is usually thoroughly investigated), but also more basically also their denotation: I thereby postulate that the type of realities to which keywords refer matters. Taking ‘fake news’ as a case in point, this contribution holds that keywords referring to forms of discourse can be considered to fall into a subtype of keywords, which thus have particular pragmatic implications. Using the theoretical framework that Krieg-Planque (2009) helped to establish for the notion of formula, I call this category meta-discursive formulas. The analysis of ‘fake news’ in the francophone press leads me to identify different levels of this metalinguistic feature of the formula. By drawing from a punctual comparison with other keywords of the same type, as well as by going back from the general notions of keyword and formula, I then focus on the performativity that might be specific to those meta-discursive formulas. Three interwoven rhetorical effects are briefly discussed in this regard: the participation in a process of categorisation of other discourses, a return effect of self-legitimisation and the creation of a specific interactional contract with the recipient of the text.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Publisher: | Cardiff University Press |
| ISSN: | 2515-0251 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 11 June 2025 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 25 October 2024 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jun 2025 15:32 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/179021 |
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