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Papers by Astrid Vandendaele
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 2021
Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, 2021
Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, 2021
Journalism, 2022
Building on previous research, we investigate how TV reporters at the French- and Dutch-speaking ... more Building on previous research, we investigate how TV reporters at the French- and Dutch-speaking public television networks deal with each other’s language when preparing and producing news reports. Through analysis of 31 semi-structured interviews with journalists from both networks, our study provides both insights into the news production process in a multilingual country, and the individual reporters’ perception of the French- and Dutch-speaking Belgians’ language. By delineating how the idealized benchmark of bilingualism is restrained by pragmatic realities (format, time and language proficiency), we demonstrate how ‘coping strategies’, including collective translation processes, play a role in news production.
Journalism, 2022
Building on previous research, we investigate how TV reporters at the French- and Dutch-speaking ... more Building on previous research, we investigate how TV reporters at the French- and Dutch-speaking public television networks deal with each other’s language when preparing and producing news reports. Through analysis of 31 semi-structured interviews with journalists from both networks, our study provides both insights into the news production process in a multilingual country, and the individual reporters’ perception of the French- and Dutch-speaking Belgians’ language. By delineating how the idealized benchmark of bilingualism is restrained by pragmatic realities (format, time and language proficiency), we demonstrate how ‘coping strategies’, including collective translation processes, play a role in news production.
neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de
De Morgen is a Flemish broadsheet that presents itself as a “progressive, independent quality new... more De Morgen is a Flemish broadsheet that presents itself as a “progressive, independent quality newspaper”. From 1998 onwards, it has been engaged in a close working relationship with Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant. This is reflected, among other things, in ...
Online Headline Testing at a Belgian Broadsheet: A Postfoundational Perspective on How News Profe... more Online Headline Testing at a Belgian Broadsheet: A Postfoundational Perspective on How News Professionals 'Sell' Content In this talk, I approach the changing status of journalism from a postfoundational perspective, in order to gain an understanding of how old foundations or journalism become less solid and contested and enter a dialogue with new ones, and to which newly emerging foundations this leads. In journalism as it stands today, a number of previously fixed roles are being contested. I focus on one such professional shift, viz. that in the role of the online sub-editor, and his/her approach to 'selling' an article's content. Following previous research on sub-editing (Vandendaele & Jacobs, 2013; Vandendaele et al, 2015; Vandendaele, 2017a; 2017b; 2017c; 2018), I set out to investigate the impact of recently introduced audience-monitoring tools on one of the sub-editors' main jobs, i.e. that of crafting headlines. Drawing on digital data, interviews a...
Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, 2021
World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA 2021), Abstracts, 2021
Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, 2021
Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, 2021
Language and Dialogue, 2022
Foucault’s notion of governmentality has been the focus of much research. However, little work pr... more 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 are enacted. In order to do this, we use critical discursive psychology as a method. Findings indicate that the coach is talked into being as an expert who diagnoses a ‘problem’ concerning the coachee’s career path and provides advice on how to solve the ‘problem’. This advice, drawing on wider social Discourses of happiness at work, regulates the identity of the coachee by prescribing acceptable ways of thinking about, and acting on, the self and so enacts governmentality.
World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA 2021), Abstracts, 2021
The Ins and Outs of Business and Professional Discourse Research, 2015
Of the many lines of research in the broad field of business and professional communication, one ... more Of the many lines of research in the broad field of business and professional communication, one that has received increasing attention over the past few years is focussed on the complex interactions between practice and learning. Sarangi and Candlin (2010), for example, have discussed the impact of inviting practitioners to the classroom in order to share their expertise in a specific field of interest. More recently, Drury-Grogan & Russ (2013) have looked at how to integrate simulations of real cases in pedagogical settings. As Blake (1991) indicated, the ultimate step in bridging the gap between learning and practice is to get the students out of the classroom and provide them with opportunities to work with practitioners in the work field. This paper reports on one such effort made in the context of the master’s program in Multilingual Business Communication (MBC) at Ghent University, where students work in teams on a specific research project that has been commissioned by a professional organization. In particular, we present a case study on a student research project in the area of employer branding that was conducted for the Belgian division of a multinational in the food industry.
Language and Dialogue, 2022
Foucault’s notion of governmentality has been the focus of much research. However, little work pr... more 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 are enacted. In order to do this, we use critical discursive psychology as a method. Findings indicate that the coach is talked into being as an expert who diagnoses a ‘problem’ concerning the coachee’s career path and provides advice on how to solve the ‘problem’. This advice, drawing on wider social Discourses of happiness at work, regulates the identity of the coachee by prescribing acceptable ways of thinking about, and acting on, the self and so enacts governmentality.
The Ins and Outs of Business and Professional Discourse Research, 2015
Of the many lines of research in the broad field of business and professional communication, one ... more Of the many lines of research in the broad field of business and professional communication, one that has received increasing attention over the past few years is focussed on the complex interactions between practice and learning. Sarangi and Candlin (2010), for example, have discussed the impact of inviting practitioners to the classroom in order to share their expertise in a specific field of interest. More recently, Drury-Grogan & Russ (2013) have looked at how to integrate simulations of real cases in pedagogical settings. As Blake (1991) indicated, the ultimate step in bridging the gap between learning and practice is to get the students out of the classroom and provide them with opportunities to work with practitioners in the work field. This paper reports on one such effort made in the context of the master’s program in Multilingual Business Communication (MBC) at Ghent University, where students work in teams on a specific research project that has been commissioned by a professional organization. In particular, we present a case study on a student research project in the area of employer branding that was conducted for the Belgian division of a multinational in the food industry.
Written Communication, 2015
Thus far, professional editing has not been researched extensively in writing research. This arti... more Thus far, professional editing has not been researched extensively in writing research. This article zooms in on sub-editing in newswriting as a form of professional editing, addressing three research questions: (a) What are the ways in which a news article’s text is altered?, (b) Are some types of news article altered more significantly than others?, and (c) Are certain news article sections more prone to alterations? Merging the contextualized insights of fieldwork with a corpus-based discourse analytic research perspective, we trace the differences (viz. additions, deletions, translocations, replacements) between the “initial” (right before sub-editing) and “final” (published) version of six different types of news article, (frontpage, headline, long, medium, short, and news wire article) in a corpus sample of 30 broadsheet articles. Our findings are first that—contrary to popular belief that sub-editors mainly “hack away” at news stories, or merely “trim the fat”—additions preva...
Written Communication, 2015
Thus far, professional editing has not been researched extensively in writing research. This arti... more Thus far, professional editing has not been researched extensively in writing research. This article zooms in on sub-editing in newswriting as a form of professional editing, addressing three research questions: (a) What are the ways in which a news article’s text is altered?, (b) Are some types of news article altered more significantly than others?, and (c) Are certain news article sections more prone to alterations? Merging the contextualized insights of fieldwork with a corpus-based discourse analytic research perspective, we trace the differences (viz. additions, deletions, translocations, replacements) between the “initial” (right before sub-editing) and “final” (published) version of six different types of news article, (frontpage, headline, long, medium, short, and news wire article) in a corpus sample of 30 broadsheet articles. Our findings are first that—contrary to popular belief that sub-editors mainly “hack away” at news stories, or merely “trim the fat”—additions preva...
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 2021
Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, 2021
Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, 2021
Journalism, 2022
Building on previous research, we investigate how TV reporters at the French- and Dutch-speaking ... more Building on previous research, we investigate how TV reporters at the French- and Dutch-speaking public television networks deal with each other’s language when preparing and producing news reports. Through analysis of 31 semi-structured interviews with journalists from both networks, our study provides both insights into the news production process in a multilingual country, and the individual reporters’ perception of the French- and Dutch-speaking Belgians’ language. By delineating how the idealized benchmark of bilingualism is restrained by pragmatic realities (format, time and language proficiency), we demonstrate how ‘coping strategies’, including collective translation processes, play a role in news production.
Journalism, 2022
Building on previous research, we investigate how TV reporters at the French- and Dutch-speaking ... more Building on previous research, we investigate how TV reporters at the French- and Dutch-speaking public television networks deal with each other’s language when preparing and producing news reports. Through analysis of 31 semi-structured interviews with journalists from both networks, our study provides both insights into the news production process in a multilingual country, and the individual reporters’ perception of the French- and Dutch-speaking Belgians’ language. By delineating how the idealized benchmark of bilingualism is restrained by pragmatic realities (format, time and language proficiency), we demonstrate how ‘coping strategies’, including collective translation processes, play a role in news production.
neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de
De Morgen is a Flemish broadsheet that presents itself as a “progressive, independent quality new... more De Morgen is a Flemish broadsheet that presents itself as a “progressive, independent quality newspaper”. From 1998 onwards, it has been engaged in a close working relationship with Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant. This is reflected, among other things, in ...
Online Headline Testing at a Belgian Broadsheet: A Postfoundational Perspective on How News Profe... more Online Headline Testing at a Belgian Broadsheet: A Postfoundational Perspective on How News Professionals 'Sell' Content In this talk, I approach the changing status of journalism from a postfoundational perspective, in order to gain an understanding of how old foundations or journalism become less solid and contested and enter a dialogue with new ones, and to which newly emerging foundations this leads. In journalism as it stands today, a number of previously fixed roles are being contested. I focus on one such professional shift, viz. that in the role of the online sub-editor, and his/her approach to 'selling' an article's content. Following previous research on sub-editing (Vandendaele & Jacobs, 2013; Vandendaele et al, 2015; Vandendaele, 2017a; 2017b; 2017c; 2018), I set out to investigate the impact of recently introduced audience-monitoring tools on one of the sub-editors' main jobs, i.e. that of crafting headlines. Drawing on digital data, interviews a...
Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, 2021
World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA 2021), Abstracts, 2021
Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, 2021
Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, 2021
Language and Dialogue, 2022
Foucault’s notion of governmentality has been the focus of much research. However, little work pr... more 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 are enacted. In order to do this, we use critical discursive psychology as a method. Findings indicate that the coach is talked into being as an expert who diagnoses a ‘problem’ concerning the coachee’s career path and provides advice on how to solve the ‘problem’. This advice, drawing on wider social Discourses of happiness at work, regulates the identity of the coachee by prescribing acceptable ways of thinking about, and acting on, the self and so enacts governmentality.
World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA 2021), Abstracts, 2021
The Ins and Outs of Business and Professional Discourse Research, 2015
Of the many lines of research in the broad field of business and professional communication, one ... more Of the many lines of research in the broad field of business and professional communication, one that has received increasing attention over the past few years is focussed on the complex interactions between practice and learning. Sarangi and Candlin (2010), for example, have discussed the impact of inviting practitioners to the classroom in order to share their expertise in a specific field of interest. More recently, Drury-Grogan & Russ (2013) have looked at how to integrate simulations of real cases in pedagogical settings. As Blake (1991) indicated, the ultimate step in bridging the gap between learning and practice is to get the students out of the classroom and provide them with opportunities to work with practitioners in the work field. This paper reports on one such effort made in the context of the master’s program in Multilingual Business Communication (MBC) at Ghent University, where students work in teams on a specific research project that has been commissioned by a professional organization. In particular, we present a case study on a student research project in the area of employer branding that was conducted for the Belgian division of a multinational in the food industry.
Language and Dialogue, 2022
Foucault’s notion of governmentality has been the focus of much research. However, little work pr... more 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 are enacted. In order to do this, we use critical discursive psychology as a method. Findings indicate that the coach is talked into being as an expert who diagnoses a ‘problem’ concerning the coachee’s career path and provides advice on how to solve the ‘problem’. This advice, drawing on wider social Discourses of happiness at work, regulates the identity of the coachee by prescribing acceptable ways of thinking about, and acting on, the self and so enacts governmentality.
The Ins and Outs of Business and Professional Discourse Research, 2015
Of the many lines of research in the broad field of business and professional communication, one ... more Of the many lines of research in the broad field of business and professional communication, one that has received increasing attention over the past few years is focussed on the complex interactions between practice and learning. Sarangi and Candlin (2010), for example, have discussed the impact of inviting practitioners to the classroom in order to share their expertise in a specific field of interest. More recently, Drury-Grogan & Russ (2013) have looked at how to integrate simulations of real cases in pedagogical settings. As Blake (1991) indicated, the ultimate step in bridging the gap between learning and practice is to get the students out of the classroom and provide them with opportunities to work with practitioners in the work field. This paper reports on one such effort made in the context of the master’s program in Multilingual Business Communication (MBC) at Ghent University, where students work in teams on a specific research project that has been commissioned by a professional organization. In particular, we present a case study on a student research project in the area of employer branding that was conducted for the Belgian division of a multinational in the food industry.
Written Communication, 2015
Thus far, professional editing has not been researched extensively in writing research. This arti... more Thus far, professional editing has not been researched extensively in writing research. This article zooms in on sub-editing in newswriting as a form of professional editing, addressing three research questions: (a) What are the ways in which a news article’s text is altered?, (b) Are some types of news article altered more significantly than others?, and (c) Are certain news article sections more prone to alterations? Merging the contextualized insights of fieldwork with a corpus-based discourse analytic research perspective, we trace the differences (viz. additions, deletions, translocations, replacements) between the “initial” (right before sub-editing) and “final” (published) version of six different types of news article, (frontpage, headline, long, medium, short, and news wire article) in a corpus sample of 30 broadsheet articles. Our findings are first that—contrary to popular belief that sub-editors mainly “hack away” at news stories, or merely “trim the fat”—additions preva...
Written Communication, 2015
Thus far, professional editing has not been researched extensively in writing research. This arti... more Thus far, professional editing has not been researched extensively in writing research. This article zooms in on sub-editing in newswriting as a form of professional editing, addressing three research questions: (a) What are the ways in which a news article’s text is altered?, (b) Are some types of news article altered more significantly than others?, and (c) Are certain news article sections more prone to alterations? Merging the contextualized insights of fieldwork with a corpus-based discourse analytic research perspective, we trace the differences (viz. additions, deletions, translocations, replacements) between the “initial” (right before sub-editing) and “final” (published) version of six different types of news article, (frontpage, headline, long, medium, short, and news wire article) in a corpus sample of 30 broadsheet articles. Our findings are first that—contrary to popular belief that sub-editors mainly “hack away” at news stories, or merely “trim the fat”—additions preva...