SOME THEORETICAL REMARKS ON INTERPERSONAL AND COMMUNICATIVE ASPECTS IN NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS

This paper focuses on a few theoretical aspects of interpersonal and communicative features in newspaper editorials. The language employed in editorials not only structures them but also foregrounds interpersonal levels of relationship between editorialists and readers thus serving as a tool for establishing interpersonal engagement and managing it throughout interactions. It, at the same time, transmits some kind of content. Language also "constructs and conveys some kind of interpersonal relationship: it has interpersonal as well as ideational meaning" (Ravelli, 2000: 44). Thus, interpersonal communication could be best approached as a (meta)linguistic process involving both (socio)cultural and linguistic factors, present in newspaper editorials as well.