Journalistic Stance in Chinese and Australian Hard News
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 asp
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Journalistic Stance in Chinese and Australian Hard News
Journalistic Stance in Chinese and Australian Hard News
Changpeng Huan
Journalistic Stance in Chinese and Australian Hard News
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Changpeng Huan School of Foreign Languages Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai China
ISBN 978-981-13-0790-4 ISBN 978-981-13-0791-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0791-1
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In memory of Chris Candlin, a superb supervisor and a visionary linguist.
Foreword
It is a great pleasure to write the foreword to this new volume on Chinese and Australian hard news. In this book, Changpeng Huan innovatively combines a multitude of perspectives to compare journalistic stance taking practices in “risk-focused” news stories in Chinese and Australian newspapers: First, the author brings together discourse and corpus analysis of news stories with ethnographic fieldwork, interviewing a range of Chinese industry professionals, from journalists to sub-editors to senior editors as well as a government official. The insights from this field site alone will be fascinating to many. Second, he brings together an analysis of Appraisal with corpus linguistics, enabling him to present quantitative tendencies in Attitude and Engagement realizations across the
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