Geert Jacobs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3671875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geert Jacobs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geert |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobs |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1180-0487 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Whose questions? Ventriloquation in entrepreneurial podcasts
While interaction is a signature feature of podcasts, new research on selected entrepreneurial podcasts has shown how they are de-dramatized as part of the leadership branding project, indexing the genre’s transition from a homespun to a corporate medium and echoing the notion of media re-colonization. This article reports on a case study of the use of questions in a single entrepreneur’s six-episode podcast series. We set out to identify and ana…
Governmentality-in-action: The pursuit of happiness and identity-work in graduate career coaching interaction
Foucault’s notion of governmentality has been the focus of much research. However, little work provides an account of how governmentality is enacted as social practice. Using transcripts of naturally-occurring talk taken from a face-to-face coaching session and text taken from a career consultant’s website as data, the purpose of this paper is to make visible, and thus analysable, the way in which governmentality and the regulation of identities …
Does addiction belong in modernity? Discursive strategies of exclusion in Polish public awareness campaigns
It's such a great story it sells itself”? Narratives of vicarious experience in a European pharmaceutical company
The news that wasn‘t
This paper presents a single-case study of the minute-by-minute unravelling of the coverage of a political news item by a journalist in the television newsroom of a national French-language public broadcasting corporation in Europe. It is documented how the journalist’s eventual decision not to cover the news is thwarted by the fact that competing media have decided otherwise. Drawing on linguistic ethnographic fieldwork, the data provide a uniqu…
The discourse of news management
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News production theory and practice: Fieldwork notes on power, interaction and agency
This paper considers notions of agency, interaction and power in business news journalism. In the first part, we present a bird’s eye view of news access theory as it is reflected in selected sociological and anthropological literature on the ethnography of news production. Next, we show how these theoretical notions can be applied to the study of press releases and particularly to the linguistic pragmatic analysis of the specific social and text…
Aila Research Network on Media Linguistics: Transwriting the News: Brisbane On‐line Pre‐conference on YouTube
Media Linguistics
Transwriting the News: Brisbane panel of the Aila Research Network on Media Linguistics
Media Linguistics
The Lowlands Newsroom Model: Fieldwork notes on the position of the newspaper sub-editor
This paper sheds light on newspaper sub-editors, the “forgotten stepchildren of the newsroom” and considers their position within the larger organizational model of the newsroom. In order to explore the sub-editor's position in the news production chain, we take an ethnographic approach. We draw on participant observation in the newsrooms of a Belgian broadsheet and a broadsheet from the Netherlands. In our study of the sub-editor, we observe how…
Is Language a News Value in Belgium: A case study of the use of Dutch-language quotes in the French-language TV news
In today's globalized and multilingual mediascape the practicalities of inter-language translation have become increasingly relevant in the newsroom and the question has been raised how multilingualism affects journalistic practice. This question seems particularly relevant in Belgium, where the political tension between Dutch-speaking and French-speaking communities has recently dominated the news agenda. In this paper we report on team fieldwor…
Towards a linguistics of news production
Notes on linguistic ethnography as a liminal activity
Linguistic ethnography has rapidly secured itself a place among the most commonly used paradigms for analyzing language in use. In this discussion paper we present a bird's eye view of the state of linguistic ethnography as it is reflected in the papers included in this volume. We propose to identify the main theoretical and methodological concerns that seem to emerge across the research presented here. Some of them center around the etic-emic, f…
Introduction: Emerging linguistic ethnographic perspectives on institutional discourses
status: Published
Press conferences on the Internet: Technology, mediation and access in the news
Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini, Catherine Nickerson, and Brigitte Planken: Business Discourse. * Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli: The Language of Business Studies Lectures: A Corpus-Assisted Analysis.
It is good to see that a special volume on business discourse has come out in a series which is devoted to research and practice in Applied Linguistics. It means that the discourse-oriented study of business practices has finally come of age and that it deserves its place in an impressive list of titles which also includes language testing, classroom management, bilingualism, and even pronunciation. At the same time, the question could be raised …
Language, communication, and the economy
This volume brings together a number of wide-ranging, transdisciplinary research articles on the interface between discourse studies and economics. It explores in what way economics can contribute to the analysis of discursive practices in various institutional settings as well as investigating what role discourse studies can play in economic research. The contributors are linguists, communication scholars, economists and other social scientists …
Beyond preformulation: An Ethnographic Perspective on Press Releases
Constructing press releases, constructing quotations: A case study
This paper reports on empirical research into how press releases are being constructed. It starts from previous discourse‐analytic work which has pointed to the ‘preformulated’ nature of press releases: in particular, it has been shown that through a number of metapragmatic features press releases can easily be copied by journalists in their own news reporting. In this paper we set out to subject one of these features, viz. pseudo‐quotations (or …
Self-reference in press releases
Projected discourse: An analysis of receiver roles in press releases
This article looks at the complex receiver roles in press releases, which do not normally compete for journalists attention per se but are primarily meant to be transmitted by them in their own news reporting. In particular, I shall characterize press releases as a special type of indirectly targeted, 'projected', discourse, with the journalists serving as mediators and the journalists' own audiences as absent ultimate destinations. In doing so, …
Towards a linguistics of news production
News production theory and practice: Fieldwork notes on power, interaction and agency
This paper considers notions of agency, interaction and power in business news journalism. In the first part, we present a bird’s eye view of news access theory as it is reflected in selected sociological and anthropological literature on the ethnography of news production. Next, we show how these theoretical notions can be applied to the study of press releases and particularly to the linguistic pragmatic analysis of the specific social and text…
Beyond preformulation: An Ethnographic Perspective on Press Releases
The Lowlands Newsroom Model: Fieldwork notes on the position of the newspaper sub-editor
This paper sheds light on newspaper sub-editors, the “forgotten stepchildren of the newsroom” and considers their position within the larger organizational model of the newsroom. In order to explore the sub-editor's position in the news production chain, we take an ethnographic approach. We draw on participant observation in the newsrooms of a Belgian broadsheet and a broadsheet from the Netherlands. In our study of the sub-editor, we observe how…
It's such a great story it sells itself”? Narratives of vicarious experience in a European pharmaceutical company
Projected discourse: An analysis of receiver roles in press releases
This article looks at the complex receiver roles in press releases, which do not normally compete for journalists attention per se but are primarily meant to be transmitted by them in their own news reporting. In particular, I shall characterize press releases as a special type of indirectly targeted, 'projected', discourse, with the journalists serving as mediators and the journalists' own audiences as absent ultimate destinations. In doing so, …
Is Language a News Value in Belgium: A case study of the use of Dutch-language quotes in the French-language TV news
In today's globalized and multilingual mediascape the practicalities of inter-language translation have become increasingly relevant in the newsroom and the question has been raised how multilingualism affects journalistic practice. This question seems particularly relevant in Belgium, where the political tension between Dutch-speaking and French-speaking communities has recently dominated the news agenda. In this paper we report on team fieldwor…
Press conferences on the Internet: Technology, mediation and access in the news
The discourse of news management
Preview this article: The discourse of news management, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/prag.18.1.01jac-1.gif
Projected discourse: An analysis of receiver roles in press releases
This article looks at the complex receiver roles in press releases, which do not normally compete for journalists attention per se but are primarily meant to be transmitted by them in their own news reporting. In particular, I shall characterize press releases as a special type of indirectly targeted, 'projected', discourse, with the journalists serving as mediators and the journalists' own audiences as absent ultimate destinations. In doing so, …
Self-reference in press releases
Constructing press releases, constructing quotations: A case study
This paper reports on empirical research into how press releases are being constructed. It starts from previous discourse‐analytic work which has pointed to the ‘preformulated’ nature of press releases: in particular, it has been shown that through a number of metapragmatic features press releases can easily be copied by journalists in their own news reporting. In this paper we set out to subject one of these features, viz. pseudo‐quotations (or …
Language, communication, and the economy
This volume brings together a number of wide-ranging, transdisciplinary research articles on the interface between discourse studies and economics. It explores in what way economics can contribute to the analysis of discursive practices in various institutional settings as well as investigating what role discourse studies can play in economic research. The contributors are linguists, communication scholars, economists and other social scientists …
Beyond preformulation: An Ethnographic Perspective on Press Releases
Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini, Catherine Nickerson, and Brigitte Planken: Business Discourse. * Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli: The Language of Business Studies Lectures: A Corpus-Assisted Analysis.
It is good to see that a special volume on business discourse has come out in a series which is devoted to research and practice in Applied Linguistics. It means that the discourse-oriented study of business practices has finally come of age and that it deserves its place in an impressive list of titles which also includes language testing, classroom management, bilingualism, and even pronunciation. At the same time, the question could be raised …
Notes on linguistic ethnography as a liminal activity
Linguistic ethnography has rapidly secured itself a place among the most commonly used paradigms for analyzing language in use. In this discussion paper we present a bird's eye view of the state of linguistic ethnography as it is reflected in the papers included in this volume. We propose to identify the main theoretical and methodological concerns that seem to emerge across the research presented here. Some of them center around the etic-emic, f…
Introduction: Emerging linguistic ethnographic perspectives on institutional discourses
status: Published
Press conferences on the Internet: Technology, mediation and access in the news
Towards a linguistics of news production
Is Language a News Value in Belgium: A case study of the use of Dutch-language quotes in the French-language TV news
In today's globalized and multilingual mediascape the practicalities of inter-language translation have become increasingly relevant in the newsroom and the question has been raised how multilingualism affects journalistic practice. This question seems particularly relevant in Belgium, where the political tension between Dutch-speaking and French-speaking communities has recently dominated the news agenda. In this paper we report on team fieldwor…
Media Linguistics
The Lowlands Newsroom Model: Fieldwork notes on the position of the newspaper sub-editor
This paper sheds light on newspaper sub-editors, the “forgotten stepchildren of the newsroom” and considers their position within the larger organizational model of the newsroom. In order to explore the sub-editor's position in the news production chain, we take an ethnographic approach. We draw on participant observation in the newsrooms of a Belgian broadsheet and a broadsheet from the Netherlands. In our study of the sub-editor, we observe how…
Aila Research Network on Media Linguistics: Transwriting the News: Brisbane On‐line Pre‐conference on YouTube
Media Linguistics
Transwriting the News: Brisbane panel of the Aila Research Network on Media Linguistics
The discourse of news management
Preview this article: The discourse of news management, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/prag.18.1.01jac-1.gif
News production theory and practice: Fieldwork notes on power, interaction and agency
This paper considers notions of agency, interaction and power in business news journalism. In the first part, we present a bird’s eye view of news access theory as it is reflected in selected sociological and anthropological literature on the ethnography of news production. Next, we show how these theoretical notions can be applied to the study of press releases and particularly to the linguistic pragmatic analysis of the specific social and text…
The news that wasn‘t
This paper presents a single-case study of the minute-by-minute unravelling of the coverage of a political news item by a journalist in the television newsroom of a national French-language public broadcasting corporation in Europe. It is documented how the journalist’s eventual decision not to cover the news is thwarted by the fact that competing media have decided otherwise. Drawing on linguistic ethnographic fieldwork, the data provide a uniqu…
Does addiction belong in modernity? Discursive strategies of exclusion in Polish public awareness campaigns
It's such a great story it sells itself”? Narratives of vicarious experience in a European pharmaceutical company
Governmentality-in-action: The pursuit of happiness and identity-work in graduate career coaching interaction
Foucault’s notion of governmentality has been the focus of much research. However, little work provides an account of how governmentality is enacted as social practice. Using transcripts of naturally-occurring talk taken from a face-to-face coaching session and text taken from a career consultant’s website as data, the purpose of this paper is to make visible, and thus analysable, the way in which governmentality and the regulation of identities …
Whose questions? Ventriloquation in entrepreneurial podcasts
While interaction is a signature feature of podcasts, new research on selected entrepreneurial podcasts has shown how they are de-dramatized as part of the leadership branding project, indexing the genre’s transition from a homespun to a corporate medium and echoing the notion of media re-colonization. This article reports on a case study of the use of questions in a single entrepreneur’s six-episode podcast series. We set out to identify and ana…
Sociology (23 works) · Linguistics (15 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Media studies (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (8 works) · Ethnography (7 works) · Law (7 works)