The performative language of Journalism (there are arguments against facts)

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to discuss the so-called “journalistic fact” and, consequently, the notions of language and context in print journalism from a qualitative research methodology and the theoretical framework of linguistics Pragmatics (Mey, 1985, 1993; Rajagopalan, 2003, 2010 and Pennycook, 2010).