Astrid Vandendaele

Ghent University | UGhent · Department of Linguistics

Building on previous research, we investigate how TV reporters at the French- and Dutch-speaking public television networks deal with each other’s language when preparing and producing news reports. Through analysis of 31 semi-structured interviews with journalists from both networks, our study provides both insights into the news production proces...

jats:title>Abstract Foucault’s notion of governmentality has been the focus of much research. However, little work provides an account of how governmentality is enacted as social practice. Using transcripts of naturally-occurring talk taken from a face-to-face coaching session and text taken from a career consultant’s website as data, the purpose o...

This chapter examines the use of collective data-gathering techniques as part of a wider, multi-site study on the multilingual workplace. Our dataset consists of the transcripts of the audio-recordings of 65 semi-structured interviews conducted by graduate students of business communication in the organizations where they were about to start their...

This book brings together new research on the practices of newsmaking. Participation, engagement and collaboration have long been heralded as a vision, goal or emerging practice in the news. The claim in this volume is that they have now become sedimented as the common-sense baseline for everyday newsmaking routines. The issue for newsmakers is not...

In this article, we examine how the Dutch language is used when francophone Belgian journalists prepare and produce their reports—during all stages of the process—up until the actual broadcast. We conducted 16 qualitative interviews with TV news journalists employed by the Belgian French-speaking public broadcaster. Taking as a starting point the h...

In this paper, we examine how the francophone TV audience is introduced to the Flemish community and its language through daily news broadcasts. More specifically, our research looks at how the Dutch language is used when francophone journalists prepare and produce their reports – during all stages of the process –, up until the actual broadcast. W...

This article zooms in on the daily practices of newspaper production journalists. In three semi-structured interviews with sub-editors employed by a Belgian newspaper, I test the practical application of the ‘production values’ I formulated, that is, guidelines that help them ensure accuracy, readability, appeal and credibility of their newspaper....

In this PhD I shed light on the role of newspaper sub-editors, the often “forgotten stepchildren of the newsroom” (Wizda, 1997: 38) in the newspaper production process. The main goal of this study is to gain insight into the sub-editors, their craft, their community of practice, and their impact on the news article. Being a sub-editor myself allowe...

In this paper, I focus on one particular player in the newspaper production process, i.e. the sub-editor. I analysed the sub-editing process through participant observation in newsrooms in the United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands. Looking at both the sub-editors at work (think-aloud protocol) as well as the articles in various stages of prod...

Of the many lines of research in the broad field of business and professional communication, one that has received increasing attention over the past few years is focussed on the complex interactions between practice and learning. Sarangi and Candlin (2010), for example, have discussed the impact of inviting practitioners to the classroom in order...

This article presents a case-based exploration of the complex interactions between learning, research, and practice in the field of business and professional communication. It focuses on a student research project in the area of corporate social responsibility in the biopharmaceutical industry. Adopting an autoethnographic approach, we aim to docum...

Thus far, professional editing has not been researched extensively in writing research. This article zooms in on sub-editing in newswriting as a form of professional editing, addressing three research questions: (a) What are the ways in which a news article’s text is altered?, (b) Are some types of news article altered more significantly than other...

Thus far, professional editing has not been researched extensively in writing research. This article zooms in on sub-editing in newswriting as a form of professional editing, addressing three research questions: (a) What are the ways in which a news article’s text is altered?, (b) Are some types of news article altered more significantly than other...

This paper sheds light on newspaper sub-editors, the “forgotten stepchildren of the newsroom” and considers their position within the larger organizational model of the newsroom. In order to explore the sub-editor's position in the news production chain, we take an ethnographic approach. We draw on participant observation in the newsrooms of a Belg...

Op grond van een vergelijkende discoursanalytische studie, steunend op Appraisal Theory (Iedema, Feez & White 2008 [1994]; Martin & Rose 2007 [2003]; Martin & White 2005; Thomson, White & Kitley 2008), gekoppeld aan face-to-face diepte-interviews, onderzoekt het artikel in welke mate de meertalige context in België de buitenlandberichtgeving over d...

This paper argues for an expansion of the traditional notion of journalistic stance as defined by Martin and White (2005). Its main plea is that appraisal resources, metaphors or agency expressions in a newspaper article are not the only traces of a journalist’s line of vision: a journalist’s assessment as to whether particular information is worth...