Adopting a multi-perspective ontological approach to language in social life, this book investigates the concept of journalistic stance, defining it as a nexus of social practice rather than simply linguistic realizations. It focuses on the discursive aspect of journalistic stance in news texts to analyse the ways journalistic stances are enacted in Chinese and Australian print-media, hard-news reporting. Further, using the appraisal framework, it identifies stance markers in news texts and examines the social-institutional and (inter)personal aspects of journalistic stance on the basis of insights gained from participant observation in news institutions in order to understand news-production processes. It also highlights the articulation of news values and the exercise of symbolic power in each news-production context.
This book appeals to a wide range of researchers, such as discourse analysts in the field of news discourse and other scholars whose research is relevant to stance/evaluation, and those engaged in corpus-informed studies, along with those in the field journalism and communication.
Considers journalist stance as a nexus of social practice rather than simply linguistic realizations
Undertakes a multiperspective approach to the study of journalistic stance, integrating different analysis methods Applies the existing frameworks to a novel comparison of contexts: Chinese and Australian hard- news reporting
Considers journalistic stance as a nexus of social practice rather than simply linguistic realizations Adopts a multiperspective approach to the study of journalistic stance, integrating different analytical methods Applies the existing frameworks to a novel comparison of contexts: Chinese and Australian hard-news reporting
Changpeng Huan
Journalistic Stance Appraisal Framework Corpus-based Studies Ethnographic Studies Discourse Analysis Hard News Discourses of Risk Chinese and Australian Hard News corpus linguistics