Designation and qualification of victims of local news story in Turkish daily written press: Exemple of Milliyet

Abstract

The local news is a kind of the print media which does not know limits today. It is everywhere; in the printed media, on the radio, on television, in the cinema, in the literature, on the web, etc. Centered on the human dramas of every type, this media kind is of sensational character and causes at the readers different feelings: surprise, fear, pity, insecurity, etc. In our study, we have for objective to analyze the nomination of the victims in the print media by establishing their reference chains throughout the text. Afterward, we are going to try to raise the linguistic processes of qualification of the victims, and consequently the linguistic way(s) by which the sensation is created.