par van Noppen, Jean Pierre 
Référence BELL. Belgian essays on language and literature, 5, page (133-145)
Publication Publié, 2007
Référence BELL. Belgian essays on language and literature, 5, page (133-145)
Publication Publié, 2007
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | The religious column in British local newspapers is today caught in the strained relationship between religion and the media, and may have to struggle for its survival in a cultural environment which has come to call its relevance into question. In this sense, it can today be studied as an illustration of the way in which a text genre reflects a community’s values and world-views. In the case example studied, a shift in “voice”, authorship and content of the religious column in the Isle of Thanet Gazette (2004-2005) illustrates how style and structure of a genre can be meaningfully correlated with extra-textual conditions (production, reception and interpretation) or social and institutional constraints : the demands of a medium conditioned by editorial policy; the editors’ convictions and preferences; the paper’s perception of readers’ expectations and responses; an ideological climate in which talk of religion is no longer universally accepted; a theological debate between transcendent and immanent representations of the divine; and the conventions of a medium with its its own voice, which may take religious discourse into the realm of popular semi-tabloid communication. |
