Peter R White
Biographic Data
| ID | 2291100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter R White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter R |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE P R |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0487-240X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
"Appraisal theory and the analysis of point of view in news and views journalism - unpacking journalistic "persuasiveness
Introduction: Linguistic approaches to point of view in journalism
Alignment, persuasiveness and the putative reader in opinion writing
This paper explores a new line of analysis for comparing opinion writing by reference to differences in the relationships being indicated between author and addressee. It draws on recent work within the appraisal framework literature to offer proposals for linguistics-based analyses of what has variously been termed the ‘intended’, ‘imagined’, ‘ideal’, ‘virtual’, ‘model’, ‘implied’ and ‘putative’ reader (the ‘reader written into the text’). A dis…
The putative reader in mass media persuasion – stance, argumentation and ideology
This article explores a framework for analyses of what has variously been termed the ‘implied’, ‘imagined’, ‘virtual’ or ‘putative’ reader/addressee – the effect by which ostensibly ‘monologic’ texts, such as news media commentary, political pronouncements and academic essays project particular attitudes, beliefs and expectations on to the reader/addressee. The framework is demonstrated in being applied to an examination of the construal of putat…
The building blocks of speech: Spontaneity, pre-packaging and the genre structuring of university lectures
This paper considers issues related to the textual organization of university lectures and the degree to which they are comprised of conventionalized text-organizational schema or genre stagings. It utilizes a dataset of video recordings and transcripts of four social science lectures which were delivered by two lecturers at a university in Japan in 2003, and offers findings which demonstrate that lecturers draw on a range of ready-made genres of…
British newspapers’ stance towards the Syrian refugee crisis: An appraisal model study
This study investigates the representations of the Syrian refugee crisis in commentary articles published in two British newspapers with different political orientations, The Guardian and The Telegraph. The study draws on the appraisal model as a linguistic tool to analyse the attitudinal language of the articles indicative of the stances adopted by the newspapers. Such stances have the potential to position the readers to positively view the ref…
Socio-cultural conditioning of style and structure in journalistic discourse: The distinctively “objective” textuality of Iranian political news reporting
Evaluative contents in verbal communication
Exploring the axiological workings of 'reporter voice' news stories-Attribution and attitudinal positioning
Praising and blaming, applauding, and disparaging – solidarity, audience positioning, and the linguistics of evaluative disposition
20. Praising and blaming, applauding, and disparaging – solidarity, audience positioning, and the linguistics of evaluative disposition was published in Handbook of Interpersonal Communication on page 567.
Objectivity” and “Hard News” Reporting Across Cultures: Comparing the news report in English, French, Japanese and Indonesian journalism
This paper is concerned with comparisons of the language of hard news reporting across languages and cultures. Within English-language journalism, authorial “neutrality” and use of the “inverted pyramid” structure are frequently seen to be distinctive features of the modern hard news report and one of the grounds by which journalists assert the “objectivity” of their writing. This paper proposes a framework for investigating these notions linguis…
Modality as dialogue: A Bakhtinian reanalysis of epistemic stance
This paper offers a dialogic reinterpretation of meanings which have traditionally been labelled instances of 'epistemic modality'-for example, modal auxiliaries such as may, will and must, modal adverbs such as possibly, probably, certainly and mental state projections such as I think and I believe. It argues that the primary function of such meanings is dialogic rather than epistemic. That is to say, such meanings first and foremost act to posi…
Evaluative semantics and ideological positioning in journalistic discourse: A new framework for analysis
Beyond modality and hedging: A dialogic view of the language of intersubjective stance
This article offers a framework for analysing the linguistic resources of intersubjective positioning, meanings which have elsewhere been treated under such headings as modality, polarity, evidentiality, hedging, concession, intensification, attribution and consequentiality.Drawing inspiration from Bakhtin/Vološinov's dialogic perspective, it proposes that this lexicogrammatically diverse grouping can be brought together on discourse semantic gro…
News as history: Your daily gossip
Modelling of cross-country rail services
Objectivity” and “Hard News” Reporting Across Cultures: Comparing the news report in English, French, Japanese and Indonesian journalism
This paper is concerned with comparisons of the language of hard news reporting across languages and cultures. Within English-language journalism, authorial “neutrality” and use of the “inverted pyramid” structure are frequently seen to be distinctive features of the modern hard news report and one of the grounds by which journalists assert the “objectivity” of their writing. This paper proposes a framework for investigating these notions linguis…
Exploring the axiological workings of 'reporter voice' news stories-Attribution and attitudinal positioning
British newspapers’ stance towards the Syrian refugee crisis: An appraisal model study
This study investigates the representations of the Syrian refugee crisis in commentary articles published in two British newspapers with different political orientations, The Guardian and The Telegraph. The study draws on the appraisal model as a linguistic tool to analyse the attitudinal language of the articles indicative of the stances adopted by the newspapers. Such stances have the potential to position the readers to positively view the ref…
Modality as dialogue: A Bakhtinian reanalysis of epistemic stance
This paper offers a dialogic reinterpretation of meanings which have traditionally been labelled instances of 'epistemic modality'-for example, modal auxiliaries such as may, will and must, modal adverbs such as possibly, probably, certainly and mental state projections such as I think and I believe. It argues that the primary function of such meanings is dialogic rather than epistemic. That is to say, such meanings first and foremost act to posi…
"Appraisal theory and the analysis of point of view in news and views journalism - unpacking journalistic "persuasiveness
Modelling of cross-country rail services
Modelling of cross-country rail services
Beyond modality and hedging: A dialogic view of the language of intersubjective stance
This article offers a framework for analysing the linguistic resources of intersubjective positioning, meanings which have elsewhere been treated under such headings as modality, polarity, evidentiality, hedging, concession, intensification, attribution and consequentiality.Drawing inspiration from Bakhtin/Vološinov's dialogic perspective, it proposes that this lexicogrammatically diverse grouping can be brought together on discourse semantic gro…
News as history: Your daily gossip
Evaluative semantics and ideological positioning in journalistic discourse: A new framework for analysis
Praising and blaming, applauding, and disparaging – solidarity, audience positioning, and the linguistics of evaluative disposition
20. Praising and blaming, applauding, and disparaging – solidarity, audience positioning, and the linguistics of evaluative disposition was published in Handbook of Interpersonal Communication on page 567.
Objectivity” and “Hard News” Reporting Across Cultures: Comparing the news report in English, French, Japanese and Indonesian journalism
This paper is concerned with comparisons of the language of hard news reporting across languages and cultures. Within English-language journalism, authorial “neutrality” and use of the “inverted pyramid” structure are frequently seen to be distinctive features of the modern hard news report and one of the grounds by which journalists assert the “objectivity” of their writing. This paper proposes a framework for investigating these notions linguis…
Modality as dialogue: A Bakhtinian reanalysis of epistemic stance
This paper offers a dialogic reinterpretation of meanings which have traditionally been labelled instances of 'epistemic modality'-for example, modal auxiliaries such as may, will and must, modal adverbs such as possibly, probably, certainly and mental state projections such as I think and I believe. It argues that the primary function of such meanings is dialogic rather than epistemic. That is to say, such meanings first and foremost act to posi…
Exploring the axiological workings of 'reporter voice' news stories-Attribution and attitudinal positioning
Evaluative contents in verbal communication
Socio-cultural conditioning of style and structure in journalistic discourse: The distinctively “objective” textuality of Iranian political news reporting
The building blocks of speech: Spontaneity, pre-packaging and the genre structuring of university lectures
This paper considers issues related to the textual organization of university lectures and the degree to which they are comprised of conventionalized text-organizational schema or genre stagings. It utilizes a dataset of video recordings and transcripts of four social science lectures which were delivered by two lecturers at a university in Japan in 2003, and offers findings which demonstrate that lecturers draw on a range of ready-made genres of…
British newspapers’ stance towards the Syrian refugee crisis: An appraisal model study
This study investigates the representations of the Syrian refugee crisis in commentary articles published in two British newspapers with different political orientations, The Guardian and The Telegraph. The study draws on the appraisal model as a linguistic tool to analyse the attitudinal language of the articles indicative of the stances adopted by the newspapers. Such stances have the potential to position the readers to positively view the ref…
The putative reader in mass media persuasion – stance, argumentation and ideology
This article explores a framework for analyses of what has variously been termed the ‘implied’, ‘imagined’, ‘virtual’ or ‘putative’ reader/addressee – the effect by which ostensibly ‘monologic’ texts, such as news media commentary, political pronouncements and academic essays project particular attitudes, beliefs and expectations on to the reader/addressee. The framework is demonstrated in being applied to an examination of the construal of putat…
Alignment, persuasiveness and the putative reader in opinion writing
This paper explores a new line of analysis for comparing opinion writing by reference to differences in the relationships being indicated between author and addressee. It draws on recent work within the appraisal framework literature to offer proposals for linguistics-based analyses of what has variously been termed the ‘intended’, ‘imagined’, ‘ideal’, ‘virtual’, ‘model’, ‘implied’ and ‘putative’ reader (the ‘reader written into the text’). A dis…
"Appraisal theory and the analysis of point of view in news and views journalism - unpacking journalistic "persuasiveness
Introduction: Linguistic approaches to point of view in journalism
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (12 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Political science (6 works)