Journalistic Stance in Chinese and Australian Hard News [Hardcover]

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.

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Contents

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1Introduction

1.1Research objectives

1.2Delineating discourses of Risk

1.3Delineating hard news reporting

1.4What is journalistic stance: A working definition

1.5Why study journalistic stance: Motivational relevancies and practical relevance5

1.6How to study journalistic stance: A multiperspectival approach

2Linguistic Modelling of Journalistic Stance

2.1Introduction