30 Towards collaborative journalism in Specialized Communication
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Abstract
This chapter examines specialized communication within the field of journalism, focusing on the discursive practices journalists use to interact with and make sense of news in highly specialized fields – such as science, politics, and the arts – to both expert and general audiences. We argue that journalism involves a form of specialized communication as journalists interpret and mediate knowledge from professional domains for broader audiences. Drawing on a media linguistic perspective, we advocate for a production-oriented perspective and linguistic ethnographic approach to investigate the specialized nature of journalisms. We explore interpretive and descriptive journalism, news in times of crisis, and mediatization in relation to specialized journalism and apply them to a case study of collaborative journalism in the field of air quality. The analysis shows how emerging forms of collaboration impact the specialized nature of the communication involved as well as the boundaries between wide-ranging professional practices.
Abstract
This chapter examines specialized communication within the field of journalism, focusing on the discursive practices journalists use to interact with and make sense of news in highly specialized fields – such as science, politics, and the arts – to both expert and general audiences. We argue that journalism involves a form of specialized communication as journalists interpret and mediate knowledge from professional domains for broader audiences. Drawing on a media linguistic perspective, we advocate for a production-oriented perspective and linguistic ethnographic approach to investigate the specialized nature of journalisms. We explore interpretive and descriptive journalism, news in times of crisis, and mediatization in relation to specialized journalism and apply them to a case study of collaborative journalism in the field of air quality. The analysis shows how emerging forms of collaboration impact the specialized nature of the communication involved as well as the boundaries between wide-ranging professional practices.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Content i
- Preface xiii
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I General aspects
- 1 Models and concepts of Specialized Communication 3
- 2 Typology of Languages for Special Purposes and Specialized Communication 31
- 3 Communication about specialized knowledge 51
- 4 Specialized Communication and cognition 67
- 5 Inter- and transdisciplinarity 87
- 6 Multilingual Specialized Communication 107
- 7 Intercultural Specialized Communication 125
- 8 Linguae francae in Specialized Communication 143
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II Functional aspects
- 9 Efficiency of Specialized Communication 169
- 10 Figurative language in domain-specific communication 191
- 11 The cognition of credibility in Specialized Communication 213
- 12 The multimodal complexity of Specialized Communication: Examples and approaches 237
- 13 Cohesion and coherence in specialized written communication 257
- 14 Gender aspects in Specialized Communication 277
- 15 Authorship and anonymity in Specialized Communication 297
- 16 Power in Specialized Communication 319
- 17 Epistemicide and Open Science Communication 339
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III Methodological aspects
- 18 Critical Genre Analysis of specialized texts: Demystifying professional practices 361
- 19 Terminology and terminography in Specialized Communication 385
- 20 Corpus linguistics in Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) 407
- 21 Academic language and content development for multilingual learners: the SIOP model 433
- 22 Research and didactics of Specialized Communication: Content and Language Integrated Learning 453
- 23 Ethnography and ethnographic methods in Specialized Communication 475
- 24 Conversation Analysis and Specialized Communication 495
- 25 Needs analysis 513
- 26 Communication in multilingual workplaces: A mixed methods approach 529
- 27 Qualitative and quantitative text analysis 545
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IV Media aspects
- 28 Specialized Communication in literary texts 563
- 29 Orality (and/as media) in Specialized Communication 589
- 30 Towards collaborative journalism in Specialized Communication 611
- 31 Specialized Communication in the press 625
- 32 Specialized Communication in the World Wide Web 645
- 33 Specialized Communication in social media 665
- 34 Language construction and Specialized Communication 687
- 35 Languages of logical calculation 707
- 36 Open Access publishing 725
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Content i
- Preface xiii
-
I General aspects
- 1 Models and concepts of Specialized Communication 3
- 2 Typology of Languages for Special Purposes and Specialized Communication 31
- 3 Communication about specialized knowledge 51
- 4 Specialized Communication and cognition 67
- 5 Inter- and transdisciplinarity 87
- 6 Multilingual Specialized Communication 107
- 7 Intercultural Specialized Communication 125
- 8 Linguae francae in Specialized Communication 143
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II Functional aspects
- 9 Efficiency of Specialized Communication 169
- 10 Figurative language in domain-specific communication 191
- 11 The cognition of credibility in Specialized Communication 213
- 12 The multimodal complexity of Specialized Communication: Examples and approaches 237
- 13 Cohesion and coherence in specialized written communication 257
- 14 Gender aspects in Specialized Communication 277
- 15 Authorship and anonymity in Specialized Communication 297
- 16 Power in Specialized Communication 319
- 17 Epistemicide and Open Science Communication 339
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III Methodological aspects
- 18 Critical Genre Analysis of specialized texts: Demystifying professional practices 361
- 19 Terminology and terminography in Specialized Communication 385
- 20 Corpus linguistics in Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) 407
- 21 Academic language and content development for multilingual learners: the SIOP model 433
- 22 Research and didactics of Specialized Communication: Content and Language Integrated Learning 453
- 23 Ethnography and ethnographic methods in Specialized Communication 475
- 24 Conversation Analysis and Specialized Communication 495
- 25 Needs analysis 513
- 26 Communication in multilingual workplaces: A mixed methods approach 529
- 27 Qualitative and quantitative text analysis 545
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IV Media aspects
- 28 Specialized Communication in literary texts 563
- 29 Orality (and/as media) in Specialized Communication 589
- 30 Towards collaborative journalism in Specialized Communication 611
- 31 Specialized Communication in the press 625
- 32 Specialized Communication in the World Wide Web 645
- 33 Specialized Communication in social media 665
- 34 Language construction and Specialized Communication 687
- 35 Languages of logical calculation 707
- 36 Open Access publishing 725
