The editorial enunciation. An analysis of articles on digital newspapers

Abstract

Introducing the concept of editorial enunciation, we can study the material conditions of production, transmission, circulation, reception and exploitation of texts. Analysing this textual dimension, we can reconstruct the relationship between materials, supports, formats, writing and reading practices, by observing in particular this enunciative layer through the marks of the editorial work of putting into text (in the author-editor relationship) and work (in the publisher-public relationship) during the publication process. The analysed corpus consists of digital journalistic articles. To analyze these texts, we have to observe the enunciative frameworks within which they present. Each article is put into text and screened within a complex architextual structure, allowing the staging of the information: going from the peripheries to the center, the journal which represents the architextual level; an intermediate supratextual level; the article which represents the textual level; and a final intratextual level.