Claude Lanzmann’s The Four Sisters (2017) on Television

This article analyses Claude Lanzmann’s final work, The Four Sisters (2017), in the context of its being edited from the outtakes of Shoah (1985) for broadcast on the Arte television channel. It argues that the distinctive features of the film, including its form as a quartet of self-contained interviews, absence of location footage and reliance on certain kinds of shot construction and mise-en-scène, arise from this televisual production context, as well as seeming to mark an ambivalent effort on the director’s part to redress his earlier work’s focus on male testifiers.

Stratégies conversationnelles dans le discours médical médiatisé

A través de este artículo, que se enmarca en el campo disciplinar del análisis del discurso, intentaremos identificar las principales estrategias conversacionales desplegadas en el discurso médico mediado, apoyándonos en una entrevista exclusiva emitida en el canal de televisión BFMTV. Más precisamente, destacaremos las especificidades discursivas propias de este tipo de comunicación y analizaremos de cerca la dinámica interactiva y los comportamientos lingüísticos específicos de los interlocutore Through this article, which falls within the disciplinary field of discourse analysis, we will try to identify the main conversational strategies deployed in mediated medical discourse, by relying on a corpus made up of an exclusive interview broadcast on the BFMTV television channel. More precisely, we will highlight the specific discursive features specific to this type of communication and will closely analyze the interactive dynamic and the specific language behaviors of the interlocutors.

Food for Thought on Conducting Research Projects on Media Accessibility During the Covid-19 Pandemic and the New Normal

The following practice report is based on observational experiences of a project group running a research project on accessibility during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project aimed to provide accessibility using plain language in children’s programs on a public television channel. The project included three groups of end-users: Deaf, hard of hearing, and visually impaired children. An overview of the project is presented to provide background for the practice report. The second part of the report deals with changes encountered in the running of the project during the pandemic: compensating for the lack of interactivity, social interaction and collective experience; using video conferencing; monitoring research; at-home research spaces and technological availability; network availability and performance; dealing with home computers; communication load; workload and work-life balance. Some key concepts of actor-network theory are used to analyse new actors, networks and shifts encountered in the process of implementing the project in the “new normal” in comparison to its planned implementation pre-COVID-19. In conclusion, a summary of possible options is cited to provide food for thought in running such projects. Lay summary The following practice report is based on the observations of a group running a research project on accessibility for Deaf, Hard of Hearing and blind children to children’s programs during the Covid-19 pandemic. We aimed to provide accessibility using plain language (easy to understand and easy to follow language in subtitles, through sign language and audiodescription) in children’s’ programs on a public television channel. Initially, an overview of the project is presented to provide background, then the changes encountered in the running of the project due to the pandemic are studied. Some of the issues discussed are: How to compensate for the lack of interactivity and social interaction since there was no face-to-face interaction; using video conferencing, monitoring research; at home research spaces and technology availability; issues about network availability and performance; dealing with home computers; communication load, and workload. Some key concepts of the actor-network theory (ANT) are used to explain changes. ANT is concerned with exploring how networks come into existence, looking into which relations exist, how those relations are sustained, how actors come together to constitute and maintain a network and how networks maintain impermanent stability. In conclusion, a summary of possible options is cited to provide food for thought in running such projects.

Linguistic variation in subtitling for audiovisual media in Portugal: case study of the film Gone with the Wind

Film subtitling involves per se a number of constraints. However, when characters speak with a particular dialect or accent, the task is even more complex. Linguistic variation is a key factor in depicting a film character and the translator will consider the implications of his/her choice when translating into the Target Culture, since such sociolinguistic and/or idio-syncratic language features contribute to the meaning(s) of a film. The presence of linguistic variation may be tied in with the medium through which a film is distributed; hence translating for different media may imply the application of different strategies. This article will analyze the film subtitling of Gone with the Wind (1939), in particular how Mammy’s speech is translated into Portuguese for RTP (public television channel), TVI (private television channel), VHS and the Internet, while also searching for translational regularities.

Engagement as an emerging value on the television channel Al Jazeera. Comparative analysis of AJA and AJE (2016-2020)

The main objective is the comparative analysis of the engagement strategies in the AlJazeera channels in Arabic and English. Methodological triangulation is used through bibliographic review, content analysis, 45 in-depth interviews and non-participant observation. The policies carried out with two important points are studied in 2016 with the conformation of the engagement strategy and in 2018 with the restructuring of the television teams. Engagement is no longer just a marketing strategy to turn the audience into a fundamental actor in content production. Platformization and the search for a comprehensive and international strategy emerge as challenges for the coming years

Opposition Media, State Censorship, and Political Accountability: Evidence from Chavez’s Venezuela

This study investigates the effects of state censorship in the context of the 2007 government closing of RCTV, a popular opposition television channel in Venezuela. Some parts of the country had access to a second opposition channel, Globovision, while other parts completely lost access to opposition television. The first finding, based upon ratings data, is that viewership fell on the progovernment replacement, following the closing of RCTV, but rose on Globovision in areas with access to the signal. Based upon this switching, the paper investigates whether support for Chavez fell in areas that retained access to opposition television, relative to those that completely lost access. Using three measures, Latinbarometer survey data, electoral returns, and data on protest activity, the second finding is that support for Chavez fell in municipalities that retained access to opposition television, relative to municipalities that lost access to opposition television. Taken together, these two findings suggest that voters switching from censored outlets to uncensored outlets can limit the effectiveness of state censorship.

Islamophobia and the media are the determinants of the Arab media's coverage of the phenomenon in the social media era

This study seeks to identify the methods and methods of covering Islamophobia by Arab news channels، and that was set in the Qatari Al-Jazeera channel and alaraby television channel That broadcasts from England. This choice comes because they are affiliated to a television news complex that has huge (financial and human) capabilities that make them broadcast on a large scale. Therefore, we aim in this study to discover the most prominent determinants and foundations of coverage of the phenomenon of Islamophobia in an era in which social networking sites exploded and became a major driver in many issues, and the religious media was absent from the agenda of the traditional media.

Télévision numérique et séries : étude de cas de TV5MONDEplus

Cette étude propose une réflexion sur les fictions sérielles produites en Afrique par la chaîne de télévision TV5. Ces dernières années, avec l’arrivée de nouvelles chaînes de télévision , on assiste à une multiplication des fictions diffusées en Afrique francophone. Cette multiplication de séries africaines favorise d’une part une concurrence entre les médias locaux. D’autre part, elle favorise également une compétition entre les médias locaux et internationaux. Si la télévision joue un rôle -clef dans les dynamiques culturelles des sociétés africaines, ces flux télévisuels peuvent être utilisés à des fins d’instrumentalisation commerciales ou politiques. Par aileurs, cette instrumentalisation favorise le déploiement de certaines stratégies de conquête qui ne sont pas sans risque. Suivant une approche plus descriptive que théorique, le présent article montre comment ces stratégies favorisent de redoutables attaques dont les fonctions n’ont de limites que l’imagination des attaquants afin de détourner les médias de leur rôle initial. This study proposes a reflection on the serial fictions produced in Africa by the television channel TV5. These last years, with the arrival of new television channels, we witness a multiplication of the fictions diffused in French-speaking Africa. This multiplication of African series favors on the one hand a competition between the local media. On the other hand, it also favors a competition between local and international media. If television plays a key role in the cultural dynamics of African societies, these television flows can be used for commercial or political purposes. Moreover, this instrumentalization favors the deployment of certain strategies of conquest which are not without risk. Following an approach that is more descriptive than theoretical, this article shows how these strategies favor formidable attacks whose functions are limited only by the imagination of the attackers in order to divert the media from their initial role.

Linguistic hybridization in a television talk show: A sociolinguistic analysis

This paper aims to determine the functions of hybridizing languages in the television talk show discourses in Bangladesh. Though hybridization of Bangla is harshly criticized in the media discourses for its alleged pollution of Bangla language, this linguistic practice, which seems to be rampant and pervasive in the society, is demonstrated not only as part of their habitual and natural linguistic behaviour but also to accomplish certain discourse functions. Analysing the video-recorded episodes selected from the archives of “Tritiyomatra”, a popular television talk show broadcasted on Channel i, a privately owned satellite television channel in Bangladesh, this study reveals that the speakers are found to use hybrid Bangla in their talk show conversation for a variety of discourse functions such as to establish cohesion in the discourse, to clarify concepts, to give emphasis and focus on the particular notions, to draw glocal attention, and to make the discussion more topic-specific and relevant. Moreover, the speakers are found to perform these discourse functions through the hybridization of languages very strategically and purposively.

Security and Religion: The Discursive Self-legitimation of the Chechen Authorities

This article analyses the official discourse of the Chechen authorities and posits that it reflects the government’s efforts as self-legitimation. This investigation seeks to identify the mechanisms exploited by the Chechen regime to boost self-legitimacy by examining the ‘News’ programme on the Chechen state television channel ‘Grozny’, which, in the authoritarian setting of Chechnya, became the government’s mouthpiece and a propagator of official discourse. To provide for the context and to boost findings, the study is complemented by a discursive analysis of one more historical-political television programme and a political advertisement that was broadcast by the same channel during the period in which the fieldwork took place. The collected data is processed using Critical Discourse Analysis.