Rhetorical Strategy of Dispute and Photojournalistic Genres – Examples of Implementation
Ewa Modrzejewska
Pełny tekst artykułuThe author presents part of the cross-disciplinary analysis of news media coverage on Polish politics, linked through its use of the rhetorical dispute strategy. Journalists turn to this category of dispute to describe politics and to report on it. The dispute strategy is implemented by both verbal and non-verbal communication elements (e.g. images). The author examines images and captions used to illustrate press reporting on events from the Polish political scene, published in three broadsheet newspapers: “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Rzeczpospolita”, and “Dziennik. Polska, Europa. Świat” (from 2005–2009). The author analyses the chosen examples while referring to the theory of journalistic genres, and the semiotic and discursive perspectives.
KEYWORDS
rhetorical strategy of dispute, photojournalism, connotation, denotation, manipulation