| Title: | Contemporary Reportage and Its Vocabulary – Putting Taste into Words |
| Author: | Ştefana Ciortea-Neamţiu |
| Publication: | Philologica Jassyensia, X (1 supl.), p. 523-530 |
| p-ISSN: | 1841-5377 |
| e-ISSN: | 2247-8353 |
| Publisher: | Institutul de Filologie Română „A. Philippide” |
| Place: | Iaşi |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Abstract: | The difference between a good and a great reportage is marked by the details chosen to describe the event or situation. Getting colorful and meaningful details for reportage not only means a nose for information, but also good eyes and an open mind. The aim of this paper is to show that also other senses, apart from sight, should be involved in gathering the information. As pleasure training, a relatively new direction in psychotherapy suggests using all the senses, this can also be an useful instrument for a reporter to get more and probably more colorful details which can indeed “make the reader see, hear and feel what the reporter saw, heard and felt”, using Michel Voirol’s words. While sight and hearing are particularly involved in news gathering, taste is one of the senses often left aside. Not all subjects for reportage permit its use, but when it is the case, sometimes the reporter lacks the vocabulary to describe the feelings. What is the vocabulary used in such cases and how can it be extended are the questions raised by this paper, making it interesting not only for researchers, but also to journalism students and reporters. |
| Key words: | reportage, senses, taste, vocabulary, pleasure-training |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
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