Takeaways from the 11th Int’l Pragmatics Conference in Melbourne:
- Don Bysouth’s research on ‘teasing’ by American service personnel in occupied Iraq and Afghanistan – oh, the boredom of warfare
- Val Williams’ inclusive research – empowering people with learning disabilities: feel-good applied linguistics research
- Conference clichés: “So when did you arrive?”, “That’s really interesting, thank you”, “So what part of the States are you from, Tom?”, “And how’s your PhD coming along?”
- Daniel Perrin’s social skills and networking expertise – in a class of his own
From L-R: A still jetlagged yours truly, Daniel 'I flew business and slept 8 hours' Perrin, Lut Baten and Val Williams @ the IPrA conference opening reception
- Marcel Burger’s jaw-dropping data – turning the process of television journalism inside out
- the thematic coherence of and audience response to our panel on news production – thank you
Collaborative news writing: A discursive perspective on news production
Convenors: Daniel Perrin, Ellen Van Praet & Tom Van Hout
Panel line-up
- Daniel Perrin – “Let the pictures do the talking” – Investigating TV journalists’ collaborative text production strategies
- Tom Van Hout & Ellen Van Praet Buy or sell? The role of consumption and authorship in financial news writing
- Ellen Van Praet & Tom Van Hout – Competence on display: negotiating status during editorial meetings
- Marcel Burger – Dealing with conflicting journalistic styles to achieve texts: oral negotiation of written media discourse
- Inés Olza – The role of metaphor in news production: Political metaphors in “preformulated” media texts
- Jasper Vandenberghe – New Spanish conquistadores? Newspaper articles and press releases on Spanish foreign investments in Argentina.
Tom Van Hout 