Linguistic analysis of figures in articles of scientific popularisation

  • Riham El Khamissy Faculty of AL ALSUN Ain Shams University (Cairo-Egypt)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/THEL.57938
Keywords: Numbers, quantifiers, approximation, argumentative operators, Zika

Abstract

In this paper, our goal is to understand how journalists deal with quantitative information, especially when it comes to numbers and figures. We have chosen to work on articles of scientific popularisation because they display abundant figures. The selected texts speak of Zika virus, which has had an important expansion during the last two years (2015-2016). We shall first explore the formal level: numbers and their integration into the text. Subsequently, we shall examine in detail the co-text of the numbers, in other words the elements that make it possible to modify the figures and / or (re)-orient their interpretation.

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Riham El Khamissy, Faculty of AL ALSUN Ain Shams University (Cairo-Egypt)

Mme Riham EL Khamissy est docteure en linguistique française et professeure-adjointe au département de français de la faculté des langues AL Alsun), Université de Ain Shams (Le Caire- Égypte). Ses travaux de recherche portent sur la pragmatique, les interactions (verbales, non-verbales, para-verbales),  les Noms propres modifiés, le lexique et la syntaxe. Elle est l’auteure de plusieurs articles, citons entre autres « L’identité visuelle d’un homme politique » in Thélème.2010, « Quand les Noms propres se modifient et font rébellion » in (RESLA) 2012, et « L’emprunt halal. Du discours lexicographique au discours journalistique » in Les Actes du 4ème Congrès Mondial de la linguistique française (CMLF 2014) à Berlin.

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Published
2018-02-26
How to Cite
El Khamissy R. (2018). Linguistic analysis of figures in articles of scientific popularisation. Thélème. Revista Complutense de Estudios Franceses, 33(1), 29-44. https://doi.org/10.5209/THEL.57938
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Vol. 33 No. 1 (2018)
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