Select Publications
Books
, 2010, Media Literacy, NSW Adult Migrant Education Services, Sydney
, 2008, Communicating Conflict, Multilingual Case Studies of the News Media, Continuum Publishing Co, London and New York
, 2005, The Language of Evaluation - Appraisal in English, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, New York
Book Chapters
, 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/
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 2000, 'Media Objectivity and the Rhetoric of News Story Structure', in Discourse and Community, Gunter Narr Verlag Tubingen, Germany, pp. 379 - 397
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000395057700003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
, 2017, 'That's not a narrative; this is a narrative: NAPLAN and pedagogies of storytelling', Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2017, https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=215386;res=AEIPT
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 2012, 'Attitudinal meanings, translational commensurability and linguistic relativity', Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 65, pp. 147 - 162, http://webpages.ull.es/users/rceing
, 2012, 'Exploring the axiological workings of ‘reporter voice’ news stories — Attribution and attitudinal positioning', Discourse, Context and Media, 1, pp. 57 - 67, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2012.10.004
, 2010, 'Taking Bakhtin Seriously: Dialogic Effects in Written, Mass Communicative Discourse', Studies in Pragmatics, 12, pp. 37 - 53
, 2003, 'Beyond Modality and Hedging: a Dialogic View of the Language of Intersubjective Stance', Text and Talk, 23, pp. 259 - 284
Conference Papers
, 2009, 'Media power and the rhetorical potential of the "hard news" report - attitudinal mechanisms in journalistic discourse', in VAKKI Symposium XXIX, University of Vaasa, Finland, Vaasa, Finland, pp. 30 - 49, presented at