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Date: 12-Oct-2010
From: Svetlana Kurtes [s.kurtes at googlemail.com]
Subject: Breaking the News on European Televisions
 

	
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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:53:52
From: Svetlana Kurtes [s.kurtes at googlemail.com]
Subject: Breaking the News on European Televisions

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Full Title: Breaking the News on European Televisions 

Date: 03-Jul-2011 - 08-Jul-2011
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Svetlana Kurtes
Meeting Email: s.kurtes at googlemail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 23-Oct-2010 

Meeting Description:

IPrA Panel: Breaking the news on European televisions: cross-cultural 
perspectives (an ENIEDA initiative)

Panel convenors:
Svetlana Kurtes (Cambridge, UK)
Teodora Popescu (Alba Iulia, Romania)

Discussant:
Cornelia Ilie (Malmo, Sweden)

The panel is organised by members of ENIEDA (The European Network for 
Intercultural Education Activities). The central goal of ENIEDA is to promote 
research in the field of intercultural education and linguistic studies across 
European countries and beyond. 

In this panel we would like to present and discuss some major issues of a 
new cross-cultural project that we have recently initiated. Its end-goal is to 
provide a cross-cultural analysis of the layout, structure and thematic 
sequencing of TV news programme in several European countries. The 
ways in which such programmes are designed, planned and structured and 
carried out is of utmost importance for the ways in which they are received, 
perceived and evaluated by the intended audiences, as well as by other 
audiences. While the ongoing process of 'harmonisation' and 'convergence' 
of information channels is taking place across national borders in Europe, 
the specific organisation, layout, scope and focus on national TV news 
programmes display varying specific recurring patterns of framing the news. 
Our particular interest in mapping the characteristics of individual news 
programmes and comparing them across national borders was prompted by 
a growing need to better understand the commonalities and differences 
between culture-based media activities that play an important role in 
representing, and at the same time in shaping, the perceptions, mentalities 
and identities of millions of Europeans on the continent. 

Call For Papers

Our research strategy aims at understanding not only patterns of media use 
of news, but also its socio-cultural embeddedness. On a macro-level, a most 
useful analytical approach has been the action theoretical frame of analysis 
of TV news used in Renckstorf, McQuail and Jankowski (1996) and further 
developed in Renckstorf, McQuail and Jankowski (2001). On a pragmatic 
micro-level we make use of a pragma-rhetorical and critical discourse-
analytical approach (McQuail 1992, Renckstorf et al. 2001).

The starting point is a pragma-rhetorical approach to institutional discourse 
(Ilie 2006), which focuses on the correlation between spatial-temporal 
frames (in terms of spatial and temporal elements, i.e. participant positioning 
in space and time),  participant frames (in terms of shifting roles and 
identities, as well as speaker-addressee and speaker-audience 
relationships) and interaction frames (in terms of institutional and 
interpersonal structuring of participant relationships in goal-oriented 
interaction activities). Particular emphasis is laid on the multimodal analysis 
of the visual layout, the interactive speaker-audience interface, the 
gendered role distribution, the layout and sequencing of different types of 
news (politics, economy, culture, sports, weather).

The project investigations will focus on the main national (public) television 
news broadcasters in the European countries under scrutiny. The basic 
research questions to be addressed in the panel contributions are the 
following:

- Which are the typical or defining features of news programmes across 
cultural and national borders in the European countries under consideration 
in terms of setting, visual cues, content, structure, interaction? Which 
general and specific purposes do they serve?

- Which broadcasting conventions are common to news programmes in 
most of the European countries concerned? 

- What ideological assumptions and socio-cultural values seem to be 
embedded in the layout, structure and content of different news 
programmes?

- How are social and/or transnational phenomena regarding asylum 
seekers, migrants, minority groups, a.s.o., presented and treated in news 
broadcasts across Europe? Which are the biased forms of representation 
used in news programmes?

- To what extent do certain news programmes depart from or stretch the 
conventions of the genre? How do particular types of news programmes 
depart from the conventions of the genre?

- In what ways do particular news programmes respond to audience 
expectations and in what ways do they contribute to constructing audience 
expectations? 

References
Ilie, Cornelia. 2006. Towards a pragma-rhetorical approach: From rhetoric 
to pragmatics and beyond. In Ashok Thorat (ed.) Pragmatics, 16-37. 
Institute of Advanced Studies in English, Aundh, Pune.

McQuail, D. 1992. Media performance: Mass communication and the public 
interest. Sage.

Renckstorf, K., McQuail, D. and Jankowski, N. (eds.). 1996. Media use as 
social action: A European approach to audience studies. London/Rome: 
Libbey.

Renckstorf, K., McQuail, D. and Jankowski, N. (eds.). 2001. Television news 
research: Recent European approaches and findings. Berlin: Quintessenz.

Call For Papers

We welcome participants wishing to take part in the panel and invite 
abstracts for 30 minute long presentations (inclusive of discussion time) on 
the topics suggested, but not strictly limited to the list above.

Abstracts should be anonymous, up to 400 words (including examples and 
references), submitted as an attachment (doc, rtf or pdf) to the panel 
convenors:

Svetlana Kurtes (s.kurtes at googlemail.com)
Teodora Popescu (teo_popescu at hotmail.com).

Please specify 'IPrA Panel' in the subject of your message, and include 
author(s) name(s), affiliation(s) and contact details (including email 
addresses) in the body of the message.

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: 23 October 2010
Notification of acceptance: 26 October 2010
Final submission via the IPrA website: 29 October 2010.

Please note that in order to participate you need to be an active member of 
IPrA. Further details and instructions are to be found at:
http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE12&n=1403

Please read the instructions carefully!

We look forward to receiving your contributions,
Svetlana Kurtes & Teodora Popescu





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