Research

By and large, media language research has traditionally applied a product view to the study of the news, focusing for example on textual analyses of print media or on transcript-based analyses of broadcast media. While research into news production processes features prominently within communication and journalism studies, the focus here is usually on macro-level issues such as the political economy of the media business, rather than on language use.

NTT research attempts to fill this gap by examining the discursive practices which lie at the heart of the news production process, including the genres propelling these processes (e.g. press releases and press conferences), the social interaction constitutive of and constituted by news production (e.g. story meetings) and the micro-level practices of journalists (e.g. writing routines).

Methodologically, NTT applies a wide range of research methods such as linguistic ethnography, discourse analysis and computer-assisted writing process analysis. Theoretically, NTT research draws on linguistic pragmatics, social theory and organizational theory.