The linguistics of newswriting / / Daniel Perrin.

• Superior document: AILA Applied Linguistics Series
• Author: Perrin, Daniel, 1961-
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: AILA applied linguistics series, v. 11; AILA Applied Linguistics Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The Linguistics of Newswriting focuses on text production in journalistic media as both a socially relevant field of language use and as a strategic field of applied linguistics. The book discusses and paves the way for scientific projects in the emerging field of linguistics of newswriting. From em...

Table of Contents

• The Linguistics of Newswriting; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Acknowledgements; Preface; Table of contents; 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|1.0 The Idée suisse research collaboration; B|1 Overcoming disciplinary boundaries; 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 perspectives with multi-method approaches; B|4 Summary and conclusion; C. Solution: Identifying the media-linguistic 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