Evaluative parameters in the news about the fall of Afghanistan Cover Image

Parametrii evaluativi în știrile despre căderea Afganistanului
Evaluative parameters in the news about the fall of Afghanistan

Author(s): Andreea Nicoleta Soare
Subject(s): Sociology, Applied Sociology, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Studies in violence and power, Sociology of Politics, Globalization
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: pragmatics; parameters; evaluation; discourse; journalism;

Summary/Abstract: During the last couple of years, journalistic discourse has been confronted with a transfer from the objective report of a subject – marked by the use of a dull vocabulary, specific mainly for the Communist period, to a subjective report, characterized by a stylistic and discursive diversity, both the result of the cultural globalization. Although it violates the norms of the objective journalism, and what Coman (1999) was calling functions, effects and roles of the media, expressing the attitude and/or the position of the journalist, with regard to the described events, confirms the hybridization of the journalistic genres and of the relationships between the sender (journalist) and his receivers (the readers). In the present paper, I will analyse the parameters in the Romanian press news about to the withdrawal of the NATO allies from Afghanistan and, implicitly, the consequences on the Afghan population of this retreat. I will highlight that, in the news referring to the conflicts, the opinion of the journalist with regard to the events changes the paradigm of understanding of the readers.

  • Issue Year: 12/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 157-164
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian