Rethinking quoting in written journalism: an intertextual chain from an interview into quotations

Résumé

This paper conceptualises quotations in a journalistic article as an intertextual chain and presents an array of core practices that journalists adopt in terms of quoting practices. The analysis is based on data from stimulated recall sessions with several informant-journalists. The “stimuli” originate from the recordings of journalistic interviews conducted by the informants as well as on the articles based on those interviews. We propose a three-part model of the recontextualisation of quotations : decontextualisation practices focus on selecting a suitable piece of information from the interview, while contextualisation practices influence the positioning of the quoted material in the final article and textualisation practices pertain to deletions, changes and insertions in the quoted material itself.