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Chapter 5. “Somehow I'm Always Writing”
Abstract
This paper shows the value that transdisciplinarity can add to media linguistics. It does so by analyzing – through a postfoundational lens – how journalistic writing changed during the last two decades, from the predominance of a writing mode that we have termed focused writing to a mode we have called writing-by-the-way. Large corpora of writing process data have been generated and analyzed with the multi-method approach of progression analysis to combine analytical depth with breadth. On the object level of doing writing in journalism, results show that the general trend toward writing-by-the-way opens new niches for focused writing. On a meta-level of doing research, findings explain why transdisciplinarity allows for deeper insights into the media-linguistic object of investigation.
Abstract
This paper shows the value that transdisciplinarity can add to media linguistics. It does so by analyzing – through a postfoundational lens – how journalistic writing changed during the last two decades, from the predominance of a writing mode that we have termed focused writing to a mode we have called writing-by-the-way. Large corpora of writing process data have been generated and analyzed with the multi-method approach of progression analysis to combine analytical depth with breadth. On the object level of doing writing in journalism, results show that the general trend toward writing-by-the-way opens new niches for focused writing. On a meta-level of doing research, findings explain why transdisciplinarity allows for deeper insights into the media-linguistic object of investigation.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Painting the postfoundational picture 1
- Chapter 2. Online headline testing at a Belgian broadsheet 17
- Chapter 3. “It is, perhaps more than ever before, a matter of participation” 43
- Chapter 4. “If it wasn’t absolutely true, it couldn’t be published” 67
- Chapter 5. “Somehow I'm Always Writing” 99
- Chapter 6. Journalism now 129
- Chapter 7. Journalists’ use of social media 151
- Chapter 8. Epilogue 175
- Index 185
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Painting the postfoundational picture 1
- Chapter 2. Online headline testing at a Belgian broadsheet 17
- Chapter 3. “It is, perhaps more than ever before, a matter of participation” 43
- Chapter 4. “If it wasn’t absolutely true, it couldn’t be published” 67
- Chapter 5. “Somehow I'm Always Writing” 99
- Chapter 6. Journalism now 129
- Chapter 7. Journalists’ use of social media 151
- Chapter 8. Epilogue 175
- Index 185
