Daniel Perrin
List of John Benjamins publications in which Daniel Perrin is involved.
Linguistic Recycling: The process of quoting in increasingly mediatized settings
Edited by Lauri Haapanen and Daniel Perrin
“She said that he said that they said…” – in this volume of the AILA Review, we investigate linguistic recycling from complementary angles. In particular, we discuss how and for whom language users – both as individuals and as communities – save resources and create value by quoting and… read more[AILA Review, 33] 2020. iv, 225 pp.
Transdisciplinarity in Applied Linguistics. AILA Review, Volume 31
Edited by Daniel Perrin and Claire Kramsch
Crossing boundaries between disciplines, research fields, and epistemologies has long been considered a promising way to get to grips with real-world problems. First formulated in the early 1960s in pedagogy and natural sciences, principles of transdisciplinarity have always been at the core of… read more
The Linguistics of Newswriting
Daniel Perrin
The Linguistics of Newswriting focuses on text production in journalistic media as both a socially relevant field of language use and as a strategic field of applied linguistics. The book discusses and paves the way for scientific projects in the emerging field of linguistics of newswriting. From… read more2026 Chapter 2. State of research: The example of the digital literacy shift in public discourse The Tools Factor: Tracing the future of digital newswriting, Perrin, Daniel, pp. 13–23 | Chapter
Repetitive language use in daily life and the professions has resulted in established practices (→2.1) and its analysis in empirically grounded typologies (→.2). From a temporal standpoint, activity types follow each other in patterns, characterized by phases in which certain activities dominate… read more
2026 Chapter 5. Conclusion: Guidelines for future applied linguistics in the newsroom The Tools Factor: Tracing the future of digital newswriting, Perrin, Daniel, pp. 66–74 | Chapter
Our analyses suggest that, from a journalism perspective, understanding the unique value offered by humans has become key in AI-supported newsrooms. Such knowledge can help upskill people and co-create both tools and professional education. From a research perspective, it means widening the… read more
2026 Chapter 1. Research question: How has tools development interacted with newswriting? The Tools Factor: Tracing the future of digital newswriting, Perrin, Daniel, pp. 3–12 | Chapter
As humans, we can speak by using body-internal tools. By contrast, writing requires external tools, ranging from stone plates and chisels to databases and algorithms. How do such tools, in particular AI tools, interact with text production in the newsroom? As applied linguists (→1.1), we have… read more
2026 Chapter 4. Findings: The case of implementing AI tools in a multilingual newsroom The Tools Factor: Tracing the future of digital newswriting, Perrin, Daniel, pp. 33–65 | Chapter
With AI, the growing co-generative potential of text tools in the newsroom has become evident. We re-coded data from three decades of progression analyses, focusing on the activity field of handling tools environment (→5.1). Within this activity field, longitudinal analyses suggest… read more
2026 Chapter 3. Methodology: Investigating writing at work in multi-layered contexts The Tools Factor: Tracing the future of digital newswriting, Perrin, Daniel, pp. 24–32 | Chapter
Analyzing real-life phenomena such as the digital literacy shift requires multi-method approaches that grant access to all the relevant levels of language use — from social to individual patterns and reflection (→3.1). The methods combined can transgress research cultures and their… read more
2021 Chapter 5. “Somehow I'm Always Writing”: On the meaning of transdisciplinary analyses of text production in media change Participation, Engagement and Collaboration in Newsmaking: A postfoundational perspective, Declercq, Jana, Geert Jacobs, Felicitas Macgilchrist and Astrid Vandendaele (eds.), pp. 99–128 | Chapter
This paper shows the value that transdisciplinarity can add to media linguistics. It does so by analyzing – through a postfoundational lens – how journalistic writing changed during the last two decades, from the predominance of a writing mode that we have termed focused writing to a mode we have… read more
2020 Linguistic recycling: The process of quoting in increasingly mediatized settings Linguistic Recycling: The process of quoting in increasingly mediatized settings, Haapanen, Lauri and Daniel Perrin (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Introduction
2019 Chapter 1. Translingual quoting in journalism: Behind the scenes of Swiss television newsrooms Journalism and Translation in the Era of Convergence, Davier, Lucile and Kyle Conway (eds.), pp. 15–42 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on translingual quoting (TQ), i.e. the sub-process of news-writing by which utterances from sources are both quoted and translated. Analyses of journalists’ mental and material activities suggest conceptualizing TQ as a complex and dynamic activity in which journalists’… read more
2018 On, for, and with practitioners: A transdisciplinary approach to text production in real-life settings Transdisciplinarity in Applied Linguistics, Perrin, Daniel and Claire Kramsch (eds.), pp. 53–80 | Article
This article explains how research “on” practitioners can be turned into research “for and with” practitioners (Cameron, Frazer, Rampton, & Richardson, 1992, p. 22) by including these practitioners in the research teams. Methodologically, it draws on two decades of multimethod research and… read more
2018 Introduction: Transdisciplinarity in applied linguistics Transdisciplinarity in Applied Linguistics, Perrin, Daniel and Claire Kramsch (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Introduction
2016 Arguing with oneself: The writing process as an argumentative soliloquy Argumentation in Journalism: Professional practices and the public sphere, Andone, Corina and Andrea Rocci (eds.), pp. 9–28 | Article
Argumentation is generally conceived of as a dialogic activity between two or more participants. Nonetheless, it operates also at an intrapersonal level (Rocci 2005), in a soliloquy where protagonist and antagonist of the critical discussion are embodied in the same person. We argue this case by… read more
2015 Applying a newswriting research approach to translation Interdisciplinarity in Translation and Interpreting Process Research, Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen, Susanne Göpferich and Sharon O'Brien (eds.), pp. 79–94 | Article
Translation is a situated activity that involves more than simply producing target texts from source texts. In order to understand what translators actually do when they translate, their psycho-biographies as well as the social setting of the workplace and the contextual resources must be… read more
2015 Methodology: Investigating real-life writing processes Writing(s) at the Crossroads: The process–product interface, Cislaru, Georgeta (ed.), pp. 33–54 | Article
Doing writing research in real-life settings means investigating individual, collaborative, and organizational writing and text production in complex and dynamic contexts. Methodological questions need to be clarified, such as: which method fits which problem and how should and can various… read more
2013 Applying a newswriting research approach to translation Interdisciplinarity in Translation and Interpreting Process Research, Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen, Susanne Göpferich and Sharon O'Brien (eds.), pp. 77–92 | Article
Translation is a situated activity that involves more than simply producing target texts from source texts. In order to understand what translators actually do when they translate, their psycho-biographies as well as the social setting of the workplace and the contextual resources must be… read more
2013 Investigating language and the media: The case of newswriting Applications in Applied Linguistics: AILA Review, Volume 26, Knapp, Karlfried (ed.), pp. 57–78 | Article
Drawing on a case study of newswriting, this article presents media linguistics as a subdiscipline of applied linguistics (AL), dealing with a distinctive field of language use. Language in the media is characterized by specific environments, functions, and structures. Medialinguistic research,… read more