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Polyphonic Creativity in Journalistic Texts
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In this paper, we present an empirical study on polyphonic creativity (i.e., the creative use of polyphony) in written journalistic discourse. Creativity is a gradual phenomenon, which is present in texts but has not been studied in polyphony, a discursive phenomenon with a central role in media discourse. We focus on the journalistic discourse dealing with crime in the context of the 2019 Chilean social outbreak due to the implications that it has in the shaping of opinions, the conduct and the daily life of the citizens. Our aim was to characterise the materialisation of such polyphonic creativity in three genres and three newspapers with different audiences. Thus, we performed a QUAL + quant analysis in the field of Discourse Analysis. Our corpus comprises 117 texts published during the first month of the outbreak in El Mercurio, La Segunda and Las & Uacute;ltimas Noticias. We were able to determine that creativity in polyphony of the journalistic discourse we analysed is not high. The genre with the highest polyphonic creativity were the op-ed pieces and the one with the lowest, news stories. Moreover, we determined that polyphonic creativity is constituted in a gradual manner with differentiating marks in each level, in a continuum regarding the following aspects: originality of and distance between voices, originality of discourses and transmitted genres, distance between associated discourses and originality of generated topics.
Keywords:
polyphonic creativity
creativity
polyphony
journalistic discourse
discourse about crime