Newspapers and the meaning of form: The legacy of Maurice M. Mouillaud
Tétu, Jean-François
Newspapers and the meaning of form: The legacy of Maurice M. Mouillaud - 2014.
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This article seeks to assess the contribution made by Maurice Mouillaud (1924-2012) to the study of newspaper forms in the context of the humanities and social sciences of the 1960s. It is primarily based on work published between 1968 (his first seminal article in the academic journal Langages) and 1979 (his thesis). Maurice Mouillaud drew on a critique of history, sociology, psychology, and linguistic studies during this period to develop an original semiological approach. He sought to study the space of information itself, viewing newspapers as a specific environment with their own reality and own forms. As such, he advocated studying both changing forms and stable patterns, and saw a newspaper as a matrix of forms, a device and system through which press strategies can be understood through their texts.
Newspapers and the meaning of form: The legacy of Maurice M. Mouillaud - 2014.
92
This article seeks to assess the contribution made by Maurice Mouillaud (1924-2012) to the study of newspaper forms in the context of the humanities and social sciences of the 1960s. It is primarily based on work published between 1968 (his first seminal article in the academic journal Langages) and 1979 (his thesis). Maurice Mouillaud drew on a critique of history, sociology, psychology, and linguistic studies during this period to develop an original semiological approach. He sought to study the space of information itself, viewing newspapers as a specific environment with their own reality and own forms. As such, he advocated studying both changing forms and stable patterns, and saw a newspaper as a matrix of forms, a device and system through which press strategies can be understood through their texts.
Réseaux sociaux