What is it about?
"The Linguistics of Newswriting" addresses three questions: 1) What methods, theories, and disciplines lend themselves to the investigation of news production? 2) What are the results of such investigations, and what are the limitations of those results? 3) How can existing and future results be documented, disseminated, and used to support practitioners in the newsroom?
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Why is it important?
"The Linguistics of Newswriting" aims to be sustainable: Unlike the results of most empirical research, its methodological and theoretical input is unlikely to become outdated quickly. Grounded in large data corpora, the research presented in the book reveals formerly hidden backstage processes of newswriting. In doing so, it shows the relevance of language practices in global newsflows.
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This page is a summary of: The Linguistics of Newswriting, August 2013, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/aals.11.
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Accompanying Website
Complementary website with transcripts of interviews, broadcasts and editorial conferences as well as videos of items and other data that are mentioned in the book.
Book review
A book review by Geert Jacobs from Ghent University, Belgium.
Recommendations
Quotes from Colleen Cotter (Queen Mary, University of London) and Paul Prior (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), assessing the book as a whole.
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