THE PROCESS/PRODUCT DYNAMICS OF FRENCH NEWS DISCOURSE (STUDY OF AFP NEWS ITEMS)
The paper presents an approach to the analysis of news agency discourse in its multidimensional process/product dynamics. The discourse production is a process reacting to the objective development of events; at the same time, each news text is a product of the journalist’s work that records a certain factual change. The author examines the elements whose interaction makes up the complex dynamics of news discourse: stages of news events, source texts and gradually developing news texts, as well as the impact of language environment on the journalist’s work. Agence France-Presse (AFP) news items serve as illustrative examples.