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Contents List of Figures List of Tables 1 Introduction 1.1 Research objectives 1.2 Delineating discourses of Risk 1.3 Delineating hard news reporting 1.4 What is journalistic stance: A working definition 1.5 Why study journalistic stance: Motivational relevancies and practical relevance 51.6 How to study journalistic stance: A multiperspectival approach 2 Linguistic Modelling of Journalistic Stance 2.1 Introduction 2.2 APPRAISAL, evaluation and stance 2.2.1 APPRAISAL 2.2.2 Evaluation 2.2.3 Stance 2.3 Modeling journalistic stance 2.4 Summary 3 A Multiperspectival Approach to Journalistic Stance: From Ontology to Methodology 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Ecological validity of stance analysis 3.3 Envisaging consensus 3.4 Charting the research map of the multiperspectival approach 3.4.1 Understanding social practice in relation to the Domain Theory 3.4.2 Outlining the ontology of multiperspectival approach 3.4.2.1 The analysts' perspective 3.4.2.2 The participants' perspective: Identity and habitus 3.4.2.3 Social practice perspective: Interaction order 3.4.2.4 Social-institutional perspective: Discourses in place 3.4.2.5 Semiotic perspective 3.5 Fieldwork and ethnographic data 3.5.1 Preparation and documentation 3.5.1.1 Gaining access to the field 3.5.1.2 Formulating interview questions 3.5.2 Navigating the field 3.5.2.1 The outsider advantage and avoiding observer effect 3.5.2.2 Consolidating critical moments 3.5.3 Data storage and transcription 3.6 Summary 4 Corpus Construction and Annotation 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Determining the nature of the corpus 4.3 Contouring the frame of corpus data 4.4 Corpus preparation 4.4.1 Size of corpora 4.4.2 Representativeness of corpora 4.4.3 Balance 4.4.4 Copyright 4.4.5 Corpus software 4.4.6 Sampling procedures 4.4.7 Organizing corpus data 4.4.8 Character encoding 4.5 Corpus annotation 4.5.1.1 Part-of-Speech tagging 4.5.1.2 Semantic annotation of stance markers 4.5.1.3 Annotating local patterns of ATTITUDE 4.6 Summary 5 Attitude Profiling 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Frequent lemmas across corpora 5.3 Part-of-speech variation across corpora 5.3.1 Overall distribution of ATTITUDE across POS 5.3.2 Distribution of ATTITUDE across POS 5.3.2.1 Nouns 5.3.2.2 Verbs 5.3.2.3 Adverbs 5.3.2.4 Adjectives 5.4 Summary 6 The Strategic Ritual of Emotionality 6.1 Introduction 6.2 A brief review of emotion studies 6.3 Overview of affect patterns 6.4 Affect patterns in Chinese and Australian hard news 6.4.1 Patterns of 'un/happiness' in the Australian corpus 6.4.2 Patterns of 'un/happiness' in the Chinese corpus
 6.4.3 Patterns of 'dis/satisfaction' in the Australian corpus 6.4.4 Patterns of 'dis/satisfaction' in the Chinese corpus
 6.4.5 Patterns of 'in/security' in the Australian corpus
 6.4.6 Patterns of 'in/security' in the Chinese corpus
 6.5 Discussion 6.6 Summary 7 Judgement Patterns 7.1 Introduction 7.2 A brief review of JUDGEMENT studies 7.3 Overview of corpus analytic findings 7.4 Patterns of JUDGEMENT in Chinese corpus 7.4.1 Pat
About the Author: Dr. Changpeng Huan is currently a Lecturer at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai. He obtained a PhD degree in Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney. His research focuses on corpus-based and ethnographically informed discourse analysis.