NewsTalk&Text

Publications

New and Forthcoming

  • Vandendaele, Astrid and Jacobs, Geert. 2013. 'The Lowlands Newsroom Model'. Journalism Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2013.851161 (link to the article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2013.851161)

  • Jacobs, Geert and Tobback, Els. 2013. 'Is language a news value in Belgium?' Journalism Studies 14 (3): 407-422, DOI:10.1080/1461670X.2012.699345

  • Sophie MOIRAND, Sandrine REBOUL-TOURÉ, Danielle LONDEI and Licia REGGIANI (eds.) 2013. Dire l'événement. Langage, mémoire, société. Paris: Presses Sorbonnes.

Previous publications:

  • Jacobs, Geert, Van Hout, Tom and Van Praet, Ellen (eds.). Special issue on the Linguistics of News Production. Journal of Pragmatics.
  • NT&T. Towards a linguistics of news production. Journal of Pragmatics.
  • Lams, Lut. Newspapers’ narratives based on wire stories: facsimiles of input? Journal of Pragmatics.
  • Perrin, Daniel. “There are two different stories to tell” – collaborative text-picture production strategies of TV journalists. Journal of Pragmatics.
  • Van Hout, Tom, Pander Maat, Henk and Wim De Preter. Writing from news sources: the case of Apple TV. Journal of Pragmatics.
  • Cotter, Colleen. Diversity awareness and the role of language in cultural representations in news stories. Journal of Pragmatics.
  • Jacobs, Geert. Press Conferences on the Internet: Technology, Mediation and Access in the News. Journal of Pragmatics.
  • Cotter, Colleen. Women's pages and the Fourth Estate: Voice, text, and action? Journal of Pragmatics.

  • Van Praet, Ellen, Flynn, Peter and Jacobs, Geert (2010). Linguistic Ethnography and Institutions. Text & Talk. 30 (2).
  • Van Hout, Tom, Macgilchrist, Felicitas (2010). Framing the news: an ethnographic view of financial newswriting. Text & Talk. 30 (2). 169-191.
  • Flynn, Peter, Van Praet, Ellen and Jacobs, Geert (2010). Emerging linguistic ethnographic perspectives on institutional discourses. Text & Talk. 30 (2). 97-103.
  • Jacobs, Geert, Slembrouck, Stef (2010). Notes on Linguistic Ethnography as a Liminal Activity. Text & Talk. 30 (2). 235-243.
  • Cotter, Colleen (2010). News Talk: Investigating the Language of Journalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Jacobs, Geert, Van Hout, Tom (2009). Towards a process view of preformulation in press releases. In: J. Renkema (ed.) Discourse of course. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 239-251.
  • Jacobs, Geert, Pander Maat, Henk (eds.) (2008). Special issue on the Discourse of News Management. Pragmatics.  18 (1).
  • Jacobs, Geert, Pander Maat, Henk and Van Hout, Tom (2008). The discourse of news management. Pragmatics. 18 (1), 1-8.
  • Van Hout, Tom and Jacobs, Geert (2008). News production theory and practice: fieldwork notes on power, interaction and agency.  Pragmatics. 18 (1), 59-84.
  • Lindholm, Maria (2008). A community text pattern in the European Commission press release? A generic and genetic view.  Pragmatics. 18 (1),
  • Pander Maat, Henk (2008). Editing and genre conflict: how newspaper journalists clarify and neutralize press release copy.  Pragmatics. 18 (1),
  • Cotter, Colleen and Marschall, Daniel (2008). The persistence of workplace ideology and identity across communicative contexts. Journal of Applied Linguistics 3 (1). 1-24.
  • Van Hout, Tom (2007) Analyzing journalistic discourse practices (and winking at CDA). In: K. Pelsmaekers and C. Rollo (eds.) Economically Speaking. Essays in honour of Chris Braecke. Antwerpen: Garant. 325-337.
  • Van Hout, Tom and Macgilchrist, Felicitas (2007). Framing the news: an ethnographic view of financial newswriting. Paper presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden. [download here]
  • Lindholm, Maria (2007) La Commission européenne et ses pratiques communicatives. Studies in Language and Culture 10/ Linköping Studies in Arts and Science 401. Linköping: Linköping University.
  • Pander Maat, Henk (2007). How promotional language in press releases is dealt with by journalists. Genre mixing or genre conflict? Journal of Business Communication 44, 59-95.
  • Jacobs, Geert (2006) The dos and don'ts of writing press releases (and how learners act upon them). In: P. Gillaerts & P. Shaw (eds.). The Map and the Landscape: norms and practices in genre. Bern: Peter Lang. 199-218.
  • Jacobs, Geert, Opdenacker, Liesbeth, Van Waes, Luuk (2005) A multilanguage online writing center for professional communication: development and testing. Business Communication Quarterly. 68(1): 8-22.
  • Sleurs, Kim and Jacobs, Geert (2005). Beyond preformulation: an ethnographic perspective on press releases. Journal of Pragmatics 37, 1251-1273.
  • Strobbe, Ilse and Jacobs, Geert (2005). E-releases: A view from linguistic pragmatics. Public Relations Review 31, 289-291.
  • Jacobs Geert (2003) Reporting annual results: a single-case analysis. In: T. Ensink & C. Sauer (eds.) Frame and perspectivising in discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 91-107.
  • Sleurs, Kim, Jacobs, Geert and Van Waes, Luuk (2003). Constructing press releases, constructing quotations: A case study. Journal of Sociolinguistics 7, 192-212.
  • Jacobs, Geert (1999). Preformulating the news. An analysis of the metapragmatics of press releases. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Jacobs, Geert (1999). Self-reference in press releases. Journal of Pragmatics. 31 (2), 219-242.
  • Jacobs, Geert (1999). Projected discourse: an analysis of receiver roles in press releases. Text. 18 (4), 505-523.