The Linguistics of Newswriting

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Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

The parts of the book

A. Challenge: Providing added value by applying linguistics

A|1 Situating newswriting as a socially relevant application field

A|1.0 The social context: Promoting public understanding

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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