Traits et portraits subjectifs dans le discours éditorialistique
Subjective traits and portraits in the editorial discourse

Summary/Abstract: The editorial discourse, by its internal nature, distinguishes itself from the conventional journalism by its subjective character (along with other characteristics that derivate from it: the own point of view, analyze, commentary, explication, interpretation, polemics, judgments of value, etc.). Within this kind of press articles the subjectivity is manifested mostly by the presence of the I speaker inside the discourse, but also by other grammatical and discursive elements which, by their nature, are charged subjectively: adjectives, nouns, verbs and adverbs. This list is not exhaustive but in our analyze we are considering mostly the nouns and the adjectives which are subjectively charged by their own meanings or by the connotations given by the context. In the present paper, we are going to analyze some of the characteristics and traits given by the editorialists, in their press articles, to several political or public persons, taking in consideration the linguistic elements referred to these traits. By this way, we are going to reveal several stigmatizing characteristics related by the physical appearance or by the activities of some public or political persons as resulted from the articles of our study corpus. Our analyze is based on a corpus study composed from printed press articles, classified by us as editorials, from the online version of some Romanian publications: Adevărul, Cotidianul, Ghimpele, România liberă, Observator cultural and Revista 22. We have chosen forty articles written by twenty-three editorialists affiliated to the six publications we have mentioned previously, from where we have selected some samples we considered the most representative for the discursive modalities that express the editorialists’ subjectivity. Therefor we are going to reveal that the press latitude opens for the editorialists the way to the appreciation or depreciation of the image of the political or public persons that they describe in their articles, and the way that the ethic limits are exceeded by their subjective language

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