The Linguistics of Newswriting ( AILA Applied Linguistics Series )

Publication series : AILA Applied Linguistics Series

Author: Daniel Perrin  

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company‎

Publication year: 2013

E-ISBN: 9789027271389

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027205278

Subject: H0 Linguistics

Keyword: Communication StudiesApplied linguisticsDiscourse studiesPragmatics

Language: ENG

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For the past two decades or so, Daniel Perrin has been one of the leading figures in a small but increasingly influential network or researchers who call for the systematic language oriented study of news production processes: no analysis of media discourse, it is argued can be complete without a thorough consideration of the contextual dynamics in which it has emerged. Perrin’s Linguistics of Newswriting is now the first book-length introduction to this field. It is both deeply theoretical and overwhelmingly empirical. The book’s scope is ambitious, from the “ins” of gaining access to the “outs” of feeding back to the practitioners interested in how the news or any other form of professional discourse is made. (On a personal note, Perrin’s book is so elegantly written, sharply focused and innovatively structured that he has single-handedly reconciled me with the monograph genre.) [...] The Linguistics of Newswriting should be considered a groundbreaking project, one that will inspire future research efforts in the field of newswriting, and beyond.

Chapter

A|1.1 Organizational context: The Swiss public service TV stations

A|1.2 Program context: The main news programs, items, and genres

A|1.3 Newsroom context: Journalists’ roles in collaborative newswriting

A|1.4 Workflow context: Daily routines between meetings and airtime

A|2 Applying linguistics in a socially relevant professional setting

A|2.0 The Leba case: Staging the story by changing one word

A|2.1 Starting from the right discipline

A|2.2 Distinguishing linguistics

A|2.3 and applied linguistics

A|2.4 Outlining media linguistics

A|2.5 Focusing on the linguistics of newswriting

A|3 Adding value through knowledge transformation

A|3.0 The Idée suisse findings

A|3.1 Demarcating scientific knowledge

A|3.2 Managing knowledge transformation from the science perspective

A|3.3 Developing a language to talk about newswriting

A|4 Summary and conclusion

B. Procedure: Adding value by re-contextualizing problems

B|1 Overcoming disciplinary boundaries

B|1.0 The Idée suisse research collaboration

B|1.1 Integrating disciplinary approaches

B|1.2 Aggregating knowledge in multidisciplinary collaboration

B|1.3 Approaching the object of study in interdisciplinary collaboration

B|1.4 Contextualizing problems in transdisciplinary collaboration

B|2 Contextualizing newswriting as the object of study

B|2.0 The Idée suisse project design

B|2.1 Epistemological interests related to newswriting

B|2.2 Newswriting as language use

B|2.3 Newswriting as writing at work

B|2.4 Newswriting as providing content for journalistic media

B|2.5 Identifying the gap: What do they do when they write?

B|3 Triangulating newswriting research methods

B|3.0 The Idée suisse multimethod approach

B|3.1 Method and methodology

B|3.2 Tracking intertextual chains with version analysis

B|3.3 Tracing writing processes with progression analysis

B|3.4 Revealing audience design with variation analysis

B|3.5 Investigating language policing with metadiscourse analysis

B|3.6 Combining per-spect-ives with multimethod approaches

B|4 Summary and conclusion

C. Solution: Identifying the medialinguistic mindset

C|1 Investigating language environments in newswriting

C|1.0 The Yogy case: Negotiating across socializations

C|1.1 Inter-personal environment

C|1.2 Intersituative environment

C|1.3 Intertextual environment

C|1.4 Intermodal environment

C|1.5 Language environments and activity fields of newswriting

C|2 Investigating language functions in newswriting

C|2.0 The Mars case: Missing the key piece of explanation

C|2.1 Referential function

C|2.2 Cog-ni-tive function

C|2.3 Interactive function

C|2.4 Social function

C|2.5 Language functions and activity fields of newswriting

C|3 Investigating language structures in newswriting

C|3.0 The Gast case: Struggling with vague key concepts

C|3.1 Phonological structure

C|3.2 Lexical structure

C|3.3 Syntactic structure

C|3.4 Textual structure

C|3.5 Language structures and activity fields of newswriting

C|4 Summary and conclusion

C|4.1 The writing research and applied linguistics perspectives

C|4.2 The practice perspective: the helix of situated newswriting

C|4.3 Value added

D. Consequence: Shaping the mindset in knowledge transformation projects

D|1 Reflecting journalists’ perspectives on newswriting

D|1.0 The Fami case: Flexibly realizing a master plan

D|1.1 Doing ethnography

D|1.2 The example of the SDA project

D|1.3 Recommendations for project design on the ethnographic level

D|2 Learning from experienced writers

D|2.0 The Fami case: Exploiting professional experience

D|2.1 Integrating Grounded Theory

D|2.2 The example of the OFCOM project

D|2.3 Recommendations for project design on the GT level

D|3 Sharing knowledge with experts in the newsrooms

D|3.0 The Fami case: Identifying and modeling good practice

D|3.1 Integrating Transdisciplinary Action Research

D|3.2 The example of the Tages-Anzeiger project

D|3.3 Recommendations for project design on the TD level

D|4 Raising awareness across stakeholders’ realities

D|4.0 The Fami case: Linking micro activity and macro structure

D|4.1 Integrating Realist Social Theory

D|4.2 The example of an Idée suisse follow-up analysis

D|4.3 Recommendations for project design on the RST level

D|5 Understanding emergence in complex dynamic settings

D|5.0 The Fami case: Balancing focus and flexibility

D|5.1 Integrating Dynamic Systems Theory

D|5.2 The example of the Modeling Writing Phases project

D|5.3 Recommendations for project design on the DST level

D|6 Summary and conclusion

E. Dissemination: Fostering knowledge transformation through open databases

E|1 Processing ecological data from and for humans and computers

E|1.1 Accessing data

E|1.2 Collecting data

E|1.3 Transforming data

E|1.4 Annotating data

E|1.5 Labeling data

E|2 Layering corpora of media text production

E|2.1 Integrating progression graphs for the first layer of corpora

E|2.2 Composing typologies for the second layer of corpora

E|2.3 Developing toolboxes for the third layer of corpora

E|3 Stimulating transformation discourse

E|3.1 Building digital repositories

E|3.2 Designing research-based assignments

E|3.3 Writing research-based textbooks

E|3.4 Teaching based on research and corpora

E|3.5 Training based on research and corpora

E|3.6 Consulting based on research and corpora

E|3.7 Integrating research and practice discourses

E|4 Summary and conclusion

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