Barchas-Lichtenstein Jena, Voiklis John, Glasser Darcey B, Fraser John
Knology.
Knology, Hunter College of the City University of New York.
J Pragmat. 2021 Jan;171:49-61. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2020.10.001. Epub 2020 Oct 28.
According to both professional journalists and news users, news should be While a great deal of research that treats relevance as co-constructed starts from the text of news stories, this paper asks how explicitly construct the (ir)relevance of particular news reports, taking a language-centered lens to open-ended survey responses. This paper makes a methodological argument in favor of a language-centered approach to open-ended survey data. Given the ubiquity of online surveys in many social science disciplines, the present paper provides an example of how this approach can deepen our understanding of survey responses. We find that news users construct relevance at varying scales, using a number of linguistic strategies of self-reference. Those who said they found the story they saw relevant used pronouns with a different distribution than those who did not, and these differences exceeded chance. In general, those who referred to themselves as members of larger collectivities were more likely to say they found a news story relevant, suggesting that relevance is discursively constructed in part through practices of self-reference.
根据专业记者和新闻用户的看法，新闻应该是……虽然大量将相关性视为共同构建的研究从新闻报道的文本出发，但本文探讨新闻用户如何明确构建特定新闻报道的（不）相关性，采用以语言为中心的视角来分析开放式调查的回答。本文提出了一个方法论观点，支持对开放式调查数据采用以语言为中心的方法。鉴于在线调查在许多社会科学学科中无处不在，本文提供了一个例子，说明这种方法如何能加深我们对调查回答的理解。我们发现，新闻用户通过多种自我指涉的语言策略，在不同尺度上构建相关性。那些表示自己认为所看到的报道相关的人，使用代词的分布与那些认为不相关的人不同，而且这些差异并非偶然。总体而言，那些将自己视为更大群体成员的人更有可能表示他们认为一则新闻报道相关，这表明相关性部分是通过自我指涉的实践在话语中构建的。
