Drawing on a corpus of 79 news items broadcast by BBC's 9 o'clock news in the period Apri... more Drawing on a corpus of 79 news items broadcast by BBC's 9 o'clock news in the period April-June 1999 (Kosovo conflict), the paper aims to characterize the live exchange between newsreaders and reporters on location as a particular type of institutional talk within the larger discourse frame of the television news program. Methodologically, it may be taken as an exercise in the application of analytical/statistical tools to a small specialized corpus in order to shed light on the workings of a particular variety of institutional discourse
Nickerson C and Hoeken H (2003) Remarkable or modest? The role played by culture in advertising. ... more Nickerson C and Hoeken H (2003) Remarkable or modest? The role played by culture in advertising. Business Communication Quarterly 66(1): 61–71. Said HM and Siew NK (eds) (2000) English is an Asian Language: The Malaysian Context. Kuala Lumpur and Sydney: Persatuan Bahasa Moden Malaysia and The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd. Varner II (2000) Theoretical foundation for intercultural business communication: A conceptual model. The Journal of Business Communication 37(1): 39–57.
This article examines some of the discourse practices of contemporary television news reporting. ... more This article examines some of the discourse practices of contemporary television news reporting. Basing their analysis on BBC and ITV reports of the G20 summit meeting in London, April 2009, the authors investigate aspects of contemporary television news coverage. Drawing on Goffman’s work on backstage and frontstage regions and on footing, the authors focus specifically on the role of small talk, media self-referentiality and artfulness in visual and verbal synchrony as resources for personalisation and recontextualisation of private activities as public discourse.
Page 1. Alan Partington, John Morley & Louann Haarman (eds.) Corpora and Disc... more Page 1. Alan Partington, John Morley & Louann Haarman (eds.) Corpora and Discourse ooooao ... 57 LOUANN HAARMAN "John, what's going on?" Some features of live exchanges on television news 71 DISCOURSE SIGNPOSTING 89 ...
Book advertisements research digest (brief research reports) economics (extracts from a textbook)... more Book advertisements research digest (brief research reports) economics (extracts from a textbook) 1917 - the Russian Revolution (book review) the overselling of candidates on television (extended report) asking the age question (academic research report) the other economy (extended report) mobilizing the middle classes (book review) human aggression (introduction to a book) inside the black box (preface to a book). Appendices: lexis common to academic prose prefixes and suffixes key to worksheets and pre-reading questions.
Discourse and media scholars who study television often focus on the way this medium constructs i... more Discourse and media scholars who study television often focus on the way this medium constructs its messages linguistically and semiotically by words, images, sounds, camera movements and in general by making specific choices that appear to reflect cultural values and ideologies. At the same time, television is a very complex medium whose products are the result of a cooperative effort and are generally created under a number of practical constraints and in response to pressing market imperatives. Professionals who make television focus on the production and coherence of their broadcasts, as well as their responsibility to the audience (both in terms of professional commitment to the viewers and consideration of their evolving tastes), and can rarely take the time to reflect on how their choices may be interpreted beyond immediate broadcast. In short, there are two sides to television: what can be seen on the screen and another behind it, inaccessible to the viewer. This book offers...
The combination of the verbal and the visual track in television news discourse poses a considera... more The combination of the verbal and the visual track in television news discourse poses a considerable analytical challenge. In the viewers’ minds the co-habitation of these two semiotic channels triggers a complex network of inferential processes, based on expectations of coherence and relevance, with which they make sense of the representation of the world offered in the news. Through the analysis of a number of news items, this article considers the cognitive processes which viewers may activate when extracting meaning from the multimedial messages contained in television news. The analysis of news items from two British television networks offered by the authors traces the possible meanings that, it is assumed, become available to a potential, ‘idealised’ or ‘implied’ viewer, who accesses the information with some social and cultural knowledge of contemporary Britain. Building on existing studies, the article proposes a model for the classification of verbal–visual relations.
Through the analysis of a number of news items, this paper considers the cognitive processes whic... more Through the analysis of a number of news items, this paper considers the cognitive processes which viewers may activate when extracting meaning from television news. Specifically, while avoiding a reflection on journalistic practice and intention, it investigates how sense emerges from the interaction between the verbal and the visual tracks and how the attribution of meaning is ‘the outcome of sometimes complex and cumulative inferential work’ (Montgomery, 2007:97). The close analysis we offer of news items from two British television networks traces the possible range of meanings that we presume become available to a potential, ‘idealised’ or ‘implied’ viewer (Dahlgren, 1988: 288) who accesses the information with some social and cultural knowledge of contemporary Britain.
In this chapter we investigate the ways in which European identities are discursively constructed... more In this chapter we investigate the ways in which European identities are discursively constructed and represented through the medium of television news. We analyse selected news coverage of EU institutional events (drawn from the British, Italian and French TV partitions of the ...
Drawing on a corpus of 79 news items broadcast by BBC's 9 o'clock news in the period Apri... more Drawing on a corpus of 79 news items broadcast by BBC's 9 o'clock news in the period April-June 1999 (Kosovo conflict), the paper aims to characterize the live exchange between newsreaders and reporters on location as a particular type of institutional talk within the larger discourse frame of the television news program. Methodologically, it may be taken as an exercise in the application of analytical/statistical tools to a small specialized corpus in order to shed light on the workings of a particular variety of institutional discourse
Drawing on a corpus of 79 news items broadcast by BBC's 9 o'clock news in the period Apri... more Drawing on a corpus of 79 news items broadcast by BBC's 9 o'clock news in the period April-June 1999 (Kosovo conflict), the paper aims to characterize the live exchange between newsreaders and reporters on location as a particular type of institutional talk within the larger discourse frame of the television news program. Methodologically, it may be taken as an exercise in the application of analytical/statistical tools to a small specialized corpus in order to shed light on the workings of a particular variety of institutional discourse
Nickerson C and Hoeken H (2003) Remarkable or modest? The role played by culture in advertising. ... more Nickerson C and Hoeken H (2003) Remarkable or modest? The role played by culture in advertising. Business Communication Quarterly 66(1): 61–71. Said HM and Siew NK (eds) (2000) English is an Asian Language: The Malaysian Context. Kuala Lumpur and Sydney: Persatuan Bahasa Moden Malaysia and The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd. Varner II (2000) Theoretical foundation for intercultural business communication: A conceptual model. The Journal of Business Communication 37(1): 39–57.
This article examines some of the discourse practices of contemporary television news reporting. ... more This article examines some of the discourse practices of contemporary television news reporting. Basing their analysis on BBC and ITV reports of the G20 summit meeting in London, April 2009, the authors investigate aspects of contemporary television news coverage. Drawing on Goffman’s work on backstage and frontstage regions and on footing, the authors focus specifically on the role of small talk, media self-referentiality and artfulness in visual and verbal synchrony as resources for personalisation and recontextualisation of private activities as public discourse.
Page 1. Alan Partington, John Morley & Louann Haarman (eds.) Corpora and Disc... more Page 1. Alan Partington, John Morley & Louann Haarman (eds.) Corpora and Discourse ooooao ... 57 LOUANN HAARMAN "John, what's going on?" Some features of live exchanges on television news 71 DISCOURSE SIGNPOSTING 89 ...
Book advertisements research digest (brief research reports) economics (extracts from a textbook)... more Book advertisements research digest (brief research reports) economics (extracts from a textbook) 1917 - the Russian Revolution (book review) the overselling of candidates on television (extended report) asking the age question (academic research report) the other economy (extended report) mobilizing the middle classes (book review) human aggression (introduction to a book) inside the black box (preface to a book). Appendices: lexis common to academic prose prefixes and suffixes key to worksheets and pre-reading questions.
Discourse and media scholars who study television often focus on the way this medium constructs i... more Discourse and media scholars who study television often focus on the way this medium constructs its messages linguistically and semiotically by words, images, sounds, camera movements and in general by making specific choices that appear to reflect cultural values and ideologies. At the same time, television is a very complex medium whose products are the result of a cooperative effort and are generally created under a number of practical constraints and in response to pressing market imperatives. Professionals who make television focus on the production and coherence of their broadcasts, as well as their responsibility to the audience (both in terms of professional commitment to the viewers and consideration of their evolving tastes), and can rarely take the time to reflect on how their choices may be interpreted beyond immediate broadcast. In short, there are two sides to television: what can be seen on the screen and another behind it, inaccessible to the viewer. This book offers...
The combination of the verbal and the visual track in television news discourse poses a considera... more The combination of the verbal and the visual track in television news discourse poses a considerable analytical challenge. In the viewers’ minds the co-habitation of these two semiotic channels triggers a complex network of inferential processes, based on expectations of coherence and relevance, with which they make sense of the representation of the world offered in the news. Through the analysis of a number of news items, this article considers the cognitive processes which viewers may activate when extracting meaning from the multimedial messages contained in television news. The analysis of news items from two British television networks offered by the authors traces the possible meanings that, it is assumed, become available to a potential, ‘idealised’ or ‘implied’ viewer, who accesses the information with some social and cultural knowledge of contemporary Britain. Building on existing studies, the article proposes a model for the classification of verbal–visual relations.
Through the analysis of a number of news items, this paper considers the cognitive processes whic... more Through the analysis of a number of news items, this paper considers the cognitive processes which viewers may activate when extracting meaning from television news. Specifically, while avoiding a reflection on journalistic practice and intention, it investigates how sense emerges from the interaction between the verbal and the visual tracks and how the attribution of meaning is ‘the outcome of sometimes complex and cumulative inferential work’ (Montgomery, 2007:97). The close analysis we offer of news items from two British television networks traces the possible range of meanings that we presume become available to a potential, ‘idealised’ or ‘implied’ viewer (Dahlgren, 1988: 288) who accesses the information with some social and cultural knowledge of contemporary Britain.
In this chapter we investigate the ways in which European identities are discursively constructed... more In this chapter we investigate the ways in which European identities are discursively constructed and represented through the medium of television news. We analyse selected news coverage of EU institutional events (drawn from the British, Italian and French TV partitions of the ...
Drawing on a corpus of 79 news items broadcast by BBC's 9 o'clock news in the period Apri... more Drawing on a corpus of 79 news items broadcast by BBC's 9 o'clock news in the period April-June 1999 (Kosovo conflict), the paper aims to characterize the live exchange between newsreaders and reporters on location as a particular type of institutional talk within the larger discourse frame of the television news program. Methodologically, it may be taken as an exercise in the application of analytical/statistical tools to a small specialized corpus in order to shed light on the workings of a particular variety of institutional discourse
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