Le discours médiatique de commémoration

Abstract

The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, brought a symbolic end to the Cold War. The authors examine the discourse of commemoration as a space for the production of meaning. Their subject is approached from two analytical angles: (1) the commemorative event with the original product it supplies and (2) the status of the media discourse of commemoration. The corpus comprises all the articles, a total of 101, discussing the fall of the Berlin Wall in the online editions of one or two quality newspapers from four European countries: the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Romania.

Keywords

• written press
• event
• commemoration
• discursive strategy
• Berlin Wall