27.3066, Confs: Disc Analysis, Ling & Lit, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/UK

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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 11:37:01
From: Marta Zampa [marta.zampa at zhaw.ch]
Subject: Beyond the Myth of Journalistic Storytelling. Why a Narrative Approach to Journalism Falls Short

 
Beyond the Myth of Journalistic Storytelling. Why a Narrative Approach to Journalism Falls Short 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 21-Jul-2017 
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 
Contact: Marta Zampa 
Contact Email: marta.zampa at zhaw.ch 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

“Reports of new events are stories – no more, but no less”. This assertion by
Gaye Tuchman (1976, 93) opened a window onto a central issue in journalism
studies, i.e., the conceptualization of events in the news as stories. Since
then, journalism research and education have further developed the concept of
narrative journalism, which has resulted in a plethora of approaches to
journalism as storytelling. In our panel, we examine this “mantra  o think
story” (Cotter & Perrin 2016) as relevant, but falling short and partly
dysfunctional (Flath 2014). We theorize and empirically investigate why news
is much more – and at the same time less – than stories and why this matters
for both journalism research and practice (Perrin & Wyss, 2016). This panel
offers space for considering issues such as:

- The reasons (e.g., historical, political, pragmatic) behind the
conceptualization of journalism as storytelling
- The relationship between storytelling and narration in journalism and other
domains, such as literature, organizational communication, and everyday
conversation
- The interplay of narration with description, exposition, and in particular
argumentation
- The role of this interplay in public discourse and in its constitutive
processes, such as gatekeeping and framing
- The theoretical and methodological instruments for investigating this
complex interplay in the dynamics of journalism in both mass and social media.

Beyond addressing such questions, we intend to contribute to better
understanding and contextualizing the narrative effort of journalists. Given
the challenges these practitioners must face in the contemporary
news-overloaded world, it is fundamental to explore the limitations of the
traditional narrative writing pattern and the opportunities it offers.
 






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