Jana Declercq
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jana Declercq is involved.
Book series
Titles
Handbook of Pragmatics: 28th Annual Installment
Edited by Jana Declercq, Frank Brisard, Sigurd D’hondt and Mieke Vandenbroucke
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 28] 2025. xiii, 194 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics: 27th Annual Installment
Edited by Mieke Vandenbroucke, Jana Declercq, Frank Brisard and Sigurd D’hondt
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 27] 2024. xiii, 273 pp.
Participation, Engagement and Collaboration in Newsmaking: A postfoundational perspective
Edited by Jana Declercq, Geert Jacobs, Felicitas Macgilchrist and Astrid Vandendaele
This book brings together new research on the practices of newsmaking. Participation, engagement and collaboration have long been heralded as a vision, goal or emerging practice in the news. The claim in this volume is that they have now become sedimented as the common-sense baseline for everyday… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 94] 2021. vi, 186 pp.
2021 Power and socialization in sibling interaction: Establishing, accepting and resisting roles of socialization target and agent Pragmatics 31:4, pp. 509–532 | Article
This paper analyses socialization processes in the interaction between two Belgian, Dutch-speaking sisters, aged 10 and 8, more specifically with regard to power dynamics and establishing the roles of socialization target and agent. Socialization is collaborative, but usually entails some… read more
2021 Chapter 1. Painting the postfoundational picture: Participation, engagement and collaboration as a new foundation for newsmaking Participation, Engagement and Collaboration in Newsmaking: A postfoundational perspective, Declercq, Jana, Geert Jacobs, Felicitas Macgilchrist and Astrid Vandendaele (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Chapter
This introductory chapter lays the ontological and epistemological groundwork for this book, by providing a review of its key themes and concepts, and outlining the book’s theoretical and methodological position. More specifically, the book’s topic is introduced based on a number of data points… read more
2021 Chapter 8. Epilogue: Newsmaking on participatory sociotechnical foundations Participation, Engagement and Collaboration in Newsmaking: A postfoundational perspective, Declercq, Jana, Geert Jacobs, Felicitas Macgilchrist and Astrid Vandendaele (eds.), pp. 175–184 | Chapter
In this epilogue, we look back at the contributions to this volume which have shown how some newsmakers embrace the idea of collaborating while others are more cautious in reaching out. There seems to be, however, simply no avoiding participation. We explore whether this means giving up, or at… read more
2021 Chapter 2. Online headline testing at a Belgian broadsheet: A postfoundational perspective on how news professionals ‘sell’ content Participation, Engagement and Collaboration in Newsmaking: A postfoundational perspective, Declercq, Jana, Geert Jacobs, Felicitas Macgilchrist and Astrid Vandendaele (eds.), pp. 17–42 | Chapter
In this chapter, we investigate the impact of recent audience-monitoring tools on the (online) newspaper sub-editors’ task of crafting headlines. We zoom in on how metrics have become part of the newsmaking process and are now intrinsic to a larger foundation of more collaborative, participatory… read more
2020 Chapter 7. (Un)healthy food discourses: The contradictory roles of health in food discourses and identities in the production of a TV show about food Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities, Rüdiger, Sofia and Susanne Mühleisen (eds.), pp. 125–144 | Chapter
This chapter addresses the central role of health in food discourses and identities as emerging during the production of a TV show about food. Food fulfils a range of socio-cultural functions which are essential for the construction of national, regional, ethical, gender, health, and many more… read more




