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

Autorentext
Dr. Changpeng Huan is currently a Lecturer at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai. He obtained a PhD degree in Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney. His research focuses on corpus-based and ethnographically informed discourse analysis.

Klappentext
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.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements
ContentsList of FiguresList of Tables1Introduction1.1Research objectives1.2Delineating discourses of Risk1.3Delineating hard news reporting1.4What is journalistic stance: A working definition1.5Why study journalistic stance: Motivational relevancies and practical relevance51.6How to study journalistic stance: A multiperspectival approach2Linguistic Modelling of Journalistic Stance2.1Introduction2.2APPRAISAL, evaluation and stance2.2.1APPRAISAL2.2.2Evaluation2.2.3Stance2.3Modeling journalistic stance2.4Summary3A Multiperspectival Approach to Journalistic Stance:  From Ontology to Methodology3.1Introduction3.2Ecological validity of stance analysis3.3Envisaging consensus3.4Charting the research map of the multiperspectival approach3.4.1Understanding social practice in relation to the Domain Theory3.4.2Outlining the ontology of multiperspectival approach3.4.2.1The analysts' perspective3.4.2.2The participants' perspective: Identity and habitus3.4.2.3Social practice perspective: Interaction order3.4.2.4Social-institutional perspective: Discourses in place3.4.2.5Semiotic perspective3.5Fieldwork and ethnographic data3.5.1Preparation and documentation3.5.1.1Gaining access to the field3.5.1.2Formulating interview questions3.5.2Navigating the field3.5.2.1The outsider advantage and avoiding observer effect3.5.2.2Consolidating critical moments3.5.3Data storage and transcription3.6Summary4Corpus Construction and Annotation4.1Introduction4.2Determining the nature of the corpus4.3Contouring the frame of corpus data4.4Corpus preparation4.4.1Size of corpora4.4.2Representativeness of corpora4.4.3Balance4.4.4Copyright4.4.5Corpus software4.4.6Sampling procedures4.4.7Organizing corpus data4.4.8Character encoding4.5Corpus annotation4.5.1.1Part-of-Speech tagging4.5.1.2Semantic annotation of stance markers4.5.1.3Annotating local patterns of ATTITUDE4.6Summary5Attitude Profiling5.1Introduction5.2Frequent lemmas across corpora5.3Part-of-speech variation across corpora5.3.1Overall distribution of ATTITUDE across POS5.3.2Distribution of ATTITUDE across POS5.3.2.1Nouns5.3.2.2Verbs5.3.2.3Adverbs5.3.2.4Adjectives5.4Summary6The Strategic Ritual of Emotionality6.1Introduction6.2A brief review of emotion studies6.3Overview of affect patterns6.4Affect patterns in Chinese and Australian hard news6.4.1Patterns of 'un/happiness' in the Australian corpus6.4.2Patterns of 'un/happiness' in the Chinese corpus6.4.3Patterns of 'dis/satisfaction' in the Australian corpus6.4.4Patterns of 'dis/satisfaction' in the Chinese corpus6.4.5Patterns of 'in/security' in the Australian corpus6.4.6Patterns of 'in/security' in the Chinese corpus6.5Discussion6.6Summary7Judgement Patterns7.1Introduction7.2A brief review of JUDGEMENT studies7.3Overview of corpus analytic findings7.4Patterns of JUDGEMENT in Chinese corpus7.4.1Patterns of 'capacity'7.4.2Patterns of 'tenacity'7.4.3Patterns of 'propriety'</div&...