Adopting a multi-perspective ontological approach to language in social life, this book investigates the concept of journalistic stance, defining it as a nexus of social practice rather than simply linguistic realizations. It focuses on the discursive aspect of journalistic stance in news texts to analyse the ways journalistic stances are enacted in Chinese and Australian print-media, hard-news reporting. Further, using the appraisal framework, it identifies stance markers in news texts and examines the social-institutional and (inter)personal aspects of journalistic stance on the basis of insights gained from participant observation in news institutions in order to understand news-production processes. It also highlights the articulation of news values and the exercise of symbolic power in each news-production context.

This book appeals to a wide range of researchers, such as discourse analysts in the field of news discourse and other scholars whoseresearch is relevant to stance/evaluation, and those engaged in corpus-informed studies, along with those in the field journalism and communication.

Dr. Changpeng Huan
is currently a Lecturer at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai. He obtained a PhD degree in Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney. His research focuses on corpus-based and ethnographically informed discourse analysis.

1 Introduction.- 2 Linguistic Modelling of Journalistic Stance.- 3 A Multiperspectival Approach to Journalistic Stance:  From Ontology to Methodology.- 4 Corpus Construction and Annotation.- 5 Attitude Profiling.- 6 The Strategic Ritual of Emotionality.- 7 Judgement Patterns.- 8 Engagement Patterns.- 9 News Values and Journalistic Stance.- 10 Symbolic Power and Journalistic Stance.- References.