By Dr Peter Robert White

Books

Feez S; Iedema R; White P, 2010, Media Literacy, NSW Adult Migrant Education Services, Sydney

White P; Thomson E, 2008, Communicating Conflict, Multilingual Case Studies of the News Media, Continuum Publishing Co, London and New York

Martin JR; White P, 2005, The Language of Evaluation - Appraisal in English, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, New York

Book Chapters

White PR; Don A, 2026, 'Introduction: Affiliation, Alignment, and Familiarity in Context', in White PR; Don A (ed.), Reder Positioning and Social Context: Affiliation, Alignment, and Familiarity in Online Written Discourse, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, pp. 3 - 47, https://utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/9781487582272

White PR, 2026, 'The Putative Reader. Persuasiveness, and Relations of Solidarity/Affiliation in Mass Communicative Opinion Writing', in White PR; Don A (ed.), Reader Positioning and Social Context: Affiliation, Alignment, and Familiarity in Online Written Discourse, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, pp. 175 - 204, https://utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/9781487582272

White P, 2022, 'The Appraisal Framework and Analyses of Journalistic Discourse: Objectivity, Subjectivity and Attitudinal Positioning,', in Knox J; Caldwell D; Martin J (ed.), Appliable Linguistics and Social Semiotics: Developing Theory from Practice, Bloomsbury, London, pp. 294 - 208, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/appliable-linguistics-and-social-semiotics-9781350109308/

White P, 2020, 'Attitudinal alignments in journalistic commentary and social-media argumentation: The construction of values-based group identities in the online comments of newspaper readers', in Zappavigna M; Dreyfus S (ed.), Discourses of Hope and Reconciliation: On J. R. Martin’s Contribution to Systemic Functional Linguistics, Bloombury Academic, London, pp. 21 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350116092.ch-002

White PR, 2016, 'Evaluative contents in verbal communication', in Rocci A; de Saussure L (ed.), Verbal Communication, Vol 3, Handbooks of Communication Sciences, DE GRUYTER MOUTON, Berlin, Boston, pp. 77 - 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110255478-006

White PRR, 2015, 'Appraisal Theory', in International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118611463.wbielsi041

White PRR, 2015, 'Appraisal Theory', in Tracy K; Ilie C; Sandel T (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction,, Wiley-Blackwell, New Jersey, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118611463/wbielsi041

White P, 2011, 'Appraisal', in Zienkowski J; Östman J-O; Verschueren J (ed.), Discursive Pragmatics, John Benjamins, pp. 14 - 36

Thomson E; White P; Kitley P, 2010, '"Objectivity" and "Hard News" Reporting Across Cultures: Comparing the news reort in Ehglish, French, Japanese and Indonesian journalism', in Richardson JE (ed.), Language and Journalism, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, London and New York, pp. 61 - 77

White PRR, 2008, 'Praising and blaming, applauding, and disparaging - solidarity, audience positioning, and the linguistics of evaluative disposition', in Handbook of Interpersonal Communication, pp. 567 - 594

Fukui N; Thomson EA; White PR, 2008, 'Evaluating ¿Reporter¿ Voice in Two Japanese Front-page Lead Stories', in Thomson EA; White PRR (ed.), Communicating Conflict, Multilingual Case Studies of the News Media, Continuum Publishing Co, Great Britain, pp. 65 - 95

Thomson E; Fukui N; White P, 2008, 'Evaluating "Reporter" Voice in Two Japanese Front-page Lead Stories', in Thomson EA; White PRR (ed.), Communicating Conflict, Multilingual Case Studies of the News Media, Continuum Publishing Co, Great Britain, pp. 65 - 96

White P, 2008, 'Praising and blaming, applauding and disparaging – solidarity, audience positioning, and the linguistics of evaluative disposition', in Antos G; Ventola E (ed.), Handbook of Interpersonal Communication, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, pp. 542 - 567

White P; Thomson E, 2008, 'The News Story as Rhetoric: linguistic approaches to the analysis of journalistic discourse', in Thomson EA; White PRR (ed.), Communicating Conflict, Multilingual Case Studies of the News Media, Continuum Publishing Co, Great Britain, pp. 1 - 24

Simon-bandenbergen A; White P; Karin A, 2007, 'Presupposition and ‘taking-for-granted’ in mass communicated political argument - An illustration from British, Flemish and Swedish political colloquy', in Fetzer A; Lauerbach G (ed.), Political Discourse in the Media, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, pp. 31 - 74

White P; Sano M, 2006, 'Dialogistic Positions and Anticipated Audiences – a Framework for Stylistic Comparisons', in Aijmer K; Simon-Vandenbergen AM (ed.), Pragmatic Markers in Contrast, Elsevier, Frankfurt, pp. 189 - 214

White P, 2006, 'Evaluative Semantics and Ideological Positioning in Journalistic Discourse: a new framework for analysis', in Lassen I; Strunck J; Vestergaard T (ed.), Mediating Ideology in Text and Image: Ten critical studies (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture), John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 37 - 67

White PRR, 2005, 'Extended reality, proto-nouns and the vernacular: Distinguishing the technological from the scientific', in Reading Science Critical and Functional Perspectives on Discourses of Science, pp. 267 - 297, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203982327-24

White P, 2004, 'Subjectivity, Evaluation and Point of View in Media Discourse', in Coffin C; O'Halloran K (ed.), Grammar, Text & Context: A Reader, Arnold: 229-257, London & New York, pp. 229 - 257

White P, 2003, 'News As History - Your Daily Gossip', in Martin JR; Wodak R (ed.), Re-Reading the Past: Critical and Functional Perspectives on Time and Value, John Benjamins, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, pp. 61 - 89

White P, 2002, '‘Appraisal - the Language of Evaluation and Stance', in Verschueren J; Östman J; Blommaert J; Bulcaen C (ed.), The Handbook of Pragmatics, John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia:, pp. 1 - 23

White P, 2000, 'Dialogue and Inter-Subjectivity: Reinterpreting the Semantics of Modality and Hedging', in Coulthard M; Cotterill J; Rock F (ed.), Dialog VI - Working With Dialog, Tübingen, Max Niemeyer Verlag, Germany, pp. 67 - 80

White P, 2000, 'Media Objectivity and the Rhetoric of News Story Structure', in Discourse and Community, Gunter Narr Verlag Tubingen, Germany, pp. 379 - 397

White P, 1998, 'Extended Reality, Proto-Nouns and the Vernacular: Distinguishing the Technological From the Scientific', in , . (eds),,: .', in Martin JR; Veel R (ed.), Reading Science - Critical and Functional Perspectives on Discourses of Science, Routledge, London & New York, pp. 266 - 296

White P, 1997, 'Death, Disruption and the Moral Order: the Narrative Impulse in Mass-Media Hard News Reporting', in Christie F; Martin JR (ed.), Genres and Institutions: Social Processes in the Workplace and School, Cassell, London,, pp. 101 - 133

Journal articles

Zaidi A; White PR, 2025, 'Diasporic Linguistics: Ethnolinguistic vitality of Punjabi among Sydney’s Invisible Punjabis', International Journal of Linguistics and Culture, 6, pp. 193 - 234, http://dx.doi.org/10.52700/ijlc.v6i2.310

Temmerman M; Mast J; White PRR, 2025, 'Introduction: Linguistic approaches to point of view in journalism', Language and Communication, 103, pp. 30 - 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.001

White PR, 2025, 'Appraisal theory and the analysis of point of view in news and views journalism – unpacking journalistic “persuasiveness”', Language and Communication, 100, pp. 95 - 107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.005

Srinon U; White PR, 2023, 'Genre Analysis Of Students’ English Hard News Story Writing In A Thai EFL University Context', Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 19, pp. 107 - 117, https://www.jlls.org/index.php/jlls/article/view/5499

White PRR, 2021, 'Alignment, persuasiveness and the putative reader in opinion writing', Language Context and Text The Social Semiotics Forum, 3, pp. 247 - 273, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/langct.21001.whi

White P, 2021, 'Textual anticipation and the putative reader in persuasive discourse', Journal of Foreign Languages, 44, pp. 2 - 20, http://jfl.shisu.edu.cn/EN/Y2021/V44/I1/2

White P; Zaidi A, 2021, 'Attitudinal Positioning and Journalistic Commentary in Politically Fraught Circumstances: Editorializing About the Killing of Osama bin Laden', Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics, 12, pp. 89 - 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.22055/RALS.2021.17011

White P; Xu Q, 2021, 'My Husband Always Crosses the Line": Textual Identity and Presentation of "the Self" in Family Conflict Communication', Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics, 12, pp. 52 - 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.22055/RALS.2021.17009

White PRR, 2020, 'The putative reader in mass media persuasion – stance, argumentation and ideology', Discourse and Communication, 14, pp. 404 - 423, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481320910512

Jalilifar A; Elhambakhsh S; White P, 2018, 'Nominalization in Applied Linguistics and Medicine: The Case of Textbook Introductions and Book Reviews', Research in Language, 16, pp. 280 - 301, http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rela-2018-0018

Tavassoli F; White P; Jalilifar A, 2018, 'British newspapers’ stance towards the Syrian refugee crisis: An appraisal model study', Discourse and Society, 30, pp. 1 - 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926518801079

Mehrabi K; Jalilifar A; AbdolMajid H; White P, 2018, 'Investigating Action Nominalization in the Introduction Sections of Research Articles: A Cross-disciplinary Study of Hard and Soft Sciences', Teaching English Language, 12, pp. 1 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.22132/TEL.2018.70500

Blackwell JW; White PRR, 2018, 'The building blocks of speech: Spontaneity, pre-packaging and the genre structuring of university lectures', Text and Talk, 38, pp. 267 - 290, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/text-2018-0001

Makki M; White PR, 2017, 'Socio-cultural conditioning of style and structure in journalistic discourse: The distinctively “objective” textuality of Iranian political news reporting', Discourse, Context & Media, 21, pp. 54 - 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2017.12.001

Jalilifar A; White P; Malekizadeh N, 2017, 'Exploring nominalization in scientific textbooks: A cross-disciplinary study of hard and soft sciences', International Journal of English Studies, 17, pp. 1 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/ijes/2017/2/272781

Caldwell D; White PRR, 2017, 'That's not a narrative; this is a narrative: NAPLAN and pedagogies of storytelling', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND LITERACY, 40, pp. 16 - 27

White PR; Makki M, 2016, 'Crime reporting as storytelling in Persian/Farsi news journalism – perspectives on the narrative function', Journal of World Languages, 3, pp. 1 - 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21698252.2016.1244407

White PRR, 2016, 'Constructing the "Stranger" in Camus' L'Étranger - Registerial and Attitudinal Variability under Translation', The Journal of Translation Studies, 17, pp. 75 - 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.15749/jts.2016.17.4.004

White PR; Jing Y, 2016, 'Why Audiovisual Translators Downplay the Interpersonal: The Case of "Interjections"in English-to-Chinese Move Subtitling', The Journal of Translation Studies, 17, pp. 107 - 142

White PRR; Mammone G; Caldwell D, 2015, 'Linguistically based inequality, multilingual education and a genre-based literacy development pedagogy: insights from the Australian experience', Language and Education, 29, pp. 256 - 271, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2014.994527

White PR; White , 2014, 'The attitudinal work of news journalism images – a search for visual and verbal analogues', Quaderni del CeSLiC. Occasional papers, 2014, pp. 1 - 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.6092/unibo/amsacta/4110

White P, 2012, 'Attitudinal meanings, translational commensurability and linguistic relativity', Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 65, pp. 147 - 162, http://webpages.ull.es/users/rceing

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