universiteit antwerpen - Tom Van Hout

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Profile

Tom Van Hout is assistant professor in the Humanities Faculty at Leiden University and visiting lecturer at the Department of Management at the University of Antwerp. He holds a PhD in linguistics from Ghent University and specializes in the ethnography of institutional communication.

He has guest-edited special issues of the Journal of Pragmatics (in press, with Geert Jacobs and Ellen Van Praet) and Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (2006, with Chris Braecke, Katja Pelsmaekers and Geert Jacobs). He is also the co-editor of an edited volume on displaying competence in organizations (contracted with Palgrave Macmillan) and he is working on a book manuscript with Colleen Cotter (Queen Mary, University of London).

Together with Gabrina Pounds (University of East Anglia) and Bram Vertommen (Ghent University College), he is convening a panel on the nature of journalistic stance at the upcoming International Pragmatics Conference to be held in Manchester in July 2011. Other research pursuits include mediated mediation and writing from sources.

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Selected publications

Journal articles

Van Hout, T., Pander Maat, H. & W. De Preter (in press) Writing from sources: the case of Apple TV. In: Journal of Pragmatics.
NewsTalk&Text (in press) Towards a Linguistics of News Production. In: Journal of Pragmatics.
Van Hout, T. & Macgilchrist, F. (2010) Framing the news: an ethnographic view of financial newswriting. In: Text & Talk 30, 2: 147-170, 2010.
Van Hout, T. & Jacobs, G. (2008) News production theory and practice: fieldwork notes on power, interaction and agency. In: Pragmatics 18, 1: 59-84.

Book chapters

Van Hout, T., Pelsmaekers, K., Rollo, C., Heynderickx, P. (in press, expected spring 2011). Discourse perspectives on competence in organizations, in: Pelsmaekers, K., Rollo, C., Van Hout, T., Heynderickx, P. (Eds.), Displaying Competence in Organizations. Discourse Perspectives. Palgrave, Houndsmills, pp. 1-13.
Van Hout, T., Van Praet, E. (in press, expected spring 2011). Competence on display: crafting stories during newsroom editorial conferences, in: Pelsmaekers, K., Rollo, C., Van Hout, T., Heynderickx, P. (Eds.), Displaying Competence in Organizations: Discourse Perspectives. Palgrave, Houndmills.
Van Hout, Tom, (in press, expected December 2010). Sourcing business news: a case study of public relations uptake, in: Franklin, B., Carlson, M. (Eds.), Journalists, Sources, and Credibility: New Perspectives. Routledge, London.
Jacobs, G. & Van Hout, T. (2009). Towards a process view of preformulation in press releases, in: Renkema, J. (Ed.), Discourse, of course. An overview of research in discourse studies. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 239-251.

Discourse in Organizations

Discourse in Organizations (DiO) is an interuniversity research network that promotes research on organizational discourse. DiO organizes interactive workshops which provide a platform for empirical, multidisciplinary research that takes into account the organizational setting of discursive practices. A first international workshop was organized in September 2005. Research seminars have been organized in annually since 2006. A second international workshop was organized in September 2009 (Ghent). A call for papers for the third international workshop (Sept. 2011) will be published shortly.

UKLEF

The UK Linguistic Ethnography Forum (UKLEF) brings together researchers conducting linguistic ethnography in the UK and elsewhere. It seeks to explore a range of past and current work, to identify key issues, and to engage in methodologically and theoretically well-tuned debate. Linguistic Ethnography holds that language and social life are mutually shaping, and that close analysis of situated language use can provide both fundamental and distinctive insights into the mechanisms and dynamics of social and cultural production in everyday activity. UKLEF is a Special Interest Group of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL).