Événements, discours, médias : réflexions à partir de quelques travaux récents

In this paper, we develop a linguistic reflection on the expression of the media event, from several recent essays that attempt to define the concept of “event”, examined in the specific context of press discourse. We will first define specific uses in ordinary language of the terms “fait” and “événement”, and then of the more precise concept of “media event”, to which multidisciplinary studies are dedicated (historical, sociological, linguistic or information Science). The “media event” is a social and discursive construction. The study of its denomination, mainly in newspaper headlines, reveals lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features. However, we will propose a broader reflection on the enunciative or argumentative issues that are involved in the setting of the event story, a narration that is also a “putting into words” of the event.