Colleen Cotter
List of John Benjamins publications for which Colleen Cotter plays a role.
Articles
2021 Chapter 6. Journalism now: Central and marginal aspects of news craft Participation, Engagement and Collaboration in Newsmaking: A postfoundational perspective, Declercq, Jana, Geert Jacobs, Felicitas Macgilchrist and Astrid Vandendaele (eds.), pp. 129–150 | Chapter
The social dimension behind the (re-)production of news genre forms is examined in news reporting examples that present different discourse outcomes in the “postfoundational” social world for whom the prestige of news craft remains key (Cotter 2010). Stories in “legacy” journalism (New York… read more
2003 Prescription and practice: Motivations behind change in news discourse Media and Language Change, Herring, Susan C. (ed.), pp. 45–74 | Article
The use of sentence-initial connectives (and, but) in written discourse historically has been disfavored, including by newspaper copy editors who delete them. This article describes changes in the frequency and use of sentence-initial connectives in news stories over the course of the twentieth… read more