This week, I’ve worked through piles of student articles and interviews for the journalism course I teach. In feedback sessions, we have discussed how to handle direct quotation. The guidelines say that speech has to be quoted just as uttered \u2013 nothing must be changed. Anyone who is familiar with the differences between oral and written language will understand that it’s impossible to meet that standard. If you set down exactly what a person says, every second interviewee will sound like an idiot, which also goes against journalistic guidelines. At a minimum, we should drop filler words such as \u201dum,” “well,” and “like,” as well as unintended repetition. The type of the story and its context affect whether we decide to preserve dialect, loanwords, jargon or cursing. The same is true for colloquialisms. In the discussions students ponder the style of words: when is someoneconnecting<\/i> and promoting<\/i> and when are they trolling<\/i> and pimping<\/i>? Regionalisms are even harder: should we maintain the southern American’s “y’all” or convert it to “you all”?<\/p>\n
Lauri Haapanen <\/i>has stated that quotations in a newspaper story have many tasks, from rhythm to characterization of the speaker. According to his research, in practice colloquialisms are changed to standard language, slip-ups are corrected, phrases are compacted and statements combined. Quotations should be tidied up, but with a gentle hand, so that the content and priorities do not change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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