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We reflect on the affordances and challenges of interactional data in the analysis of long-term institutional change. To this end we draw on our studies of direct encounters between journalists and politicians in news interviews and presidential news conferences and in particular the use of question design as a window into the evolution of journalistic norms and press-state relations over time and the causal antecedents of such change. All analyses that incorporate a concern with environing contexts of interactional change impose certain burdens of empirical demonstration on the researcher. Here we consider three analytic issues that arise in the kind of historical-institutional analysis we have been pursuing: (a) controlling for the situational context, (b) pinpointing the locus of change, and (c) validating indicators of change. Data are in English.
Transdisciplinary research is research not only on, but also for and, most of all, with practitioners. In the research framework of transdisciplinarity, scholars and practitioners collaborate throughout research projects with the aim of mutual learning. This paper shows the value transdisciplinarity can add to media linguistics. It does so by investigating the digital literacy shift in journalism: the change, in 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 multimethod approach of progression analysis in order to combine analytical depth with breadth. On the object level of doing writing in journalism, results show that the general trend towards writing-by-the-way opens up new niches for focused writing. On a meta level of doing research, findings explain under what conditions transdisciplinarity allows for deeper insights into the medialinguistic object of investigation.
Gerade die Sprache der Journalisten hat eine kritische Reflexion bitter nötig. Denn – hierin den Juristen ähnlich – haben auch Journalisten eine Definitionsmacht über die soziale Wirklichkeit. Vor allem transportieren sie die Sprache der Politiker, die nicht selten „riskante" Begriffe durch Schönfärberei semantisch verschleiert. Oder sie schaffen eine eigene sprachliche Realität, die dann die Perspektive des „kritischen" Beobachters spiegelt. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele, die vorwiegend den Tageszeitungen entnommen sind, untersucht der Verfasser Sprach-Modismen und Sprach-Verschiebungen aller Art, die zugleich S inn-Verschiebungen sind. Und er ruft die Linguisten auf, die selten gewordene Selbstkritik der Journalisten bei diesen Entschleierungen zu unterstützen. „Denn wir sitzen gemeinsam in dem Sprach-Boot, das alles mögliche darf – nur nicht untergehen."
Verlautbarungsjournalismus
(1986)