Daniel Perrin

This article is about the linguist. For the Swiss composer (* 1955), see Daniel Perrin (composer) .

Daniel Perrin (* 1961 in Bern ) is a Swiss linguist and media scientist and lecturer specializing in theory and methodology in applied linguistics, media linguistics and text production research.

biography

Daniel Perrin studied music and computer science from 1983 to 1987 and media studies and general linguistics from 1991 to 1995 at the University of Bern . There he received his doctorate in 1997 at the Institute for General Linguistics on the optimization of journalistic writing strategies and set up the research center for professional writing. In 2011 he completed his habilitation in applied linguistics at the University of Bern.

In his career, Daniel Perrin has dovetailed the theoretical relation to writing in public discourse with practical experience. From 1979 to 1983 he worked as a reporter, editor and presenter at Swiss Radio DRS , from 1983 to 1997 as a journalist for various daily newspapers ( Der Bund , Die Zeit , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ), and from 1999 to 2001 as editor-in-chief and member of the editorial board of the Tages-Anzeiger . Since then he has been coaching media editors in the German-speaking area and leading projects in editorial organizational development within the framework of media convergence.

Daniel Perrin has been Director of the Department of Applied Linguistics at the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur since 2017, after having been Professor of Media Linguistics and Head of the IAM Institute for Applied Media Studies at the ZHAW from 2000 to 2017 . He has also been President of the International Association of Applied Linguistics AILA since 2017 . From 2005 to 2009 he was president of the Association for Applied Linguistics in Switzerland VALS-ASLA , the Swiss society of AILA. Since 2010 he has been co-editor of the International Journal of Applied Linguistics .

Focus of work

Daniel Perrins specializes in research, advice and teaching

• Theory and Methodology of Applied Linguistics
• Media linguistics
• Text production research

Perrin combines the research frameworks Ethnography , Grounded Theory , Transdisciplinary Action Research, Realist Social Theory and Dynamical Systems Theory with the methodical approach of progression analysis.

Progression analysis as a multi-method approach

In his research projects, for example “Idéé Suisse” (2005–2008) or “Modeling Writing Phases” (2010–2012), Daniel Perrin mainly works with the multi-method approach developed by his research groups, namely progression analysis. This data acquisition and analysis process enables detailed research into collaborative text production processes in natural environments. The use of language becomes tangible as an interface between cognitive and social practices in text production. The progression analysis relates data from three survey levels to one another.

a) Ethnographic interviews to socialize the researched and participant observation of the practices and routines in the workplace

b) technical recording of all work steps such as cursor movements, text input and deletions at all computer workstations at the examination site.

c) Retrospective verbal transcripts in which the writers verbalize their thoughts while they follow the recordings of their writing processes on the screen.

Research framework ethnography : understanding the inner perspective

In the context of ethnography, Perrin examines the internal view of those who communicate professionally on their text production. It becomes clear which strategies, practices and routines the writers use themselves when they create their communication offers. It can be seen, for example, that in three television editorial offices examined, the “story” is the central ethno-categorical text type: journalists create “stories” in their self-perception, not reports, reports or features. The selection and availability of text actors such as those affected, decision-makers and experts, whose statements are fitted into basic narrative patterns, are central to such “stories”.

Grounded Theory research framework : learning from experts

In the research framework of Grounded Theory Perrin examines basic patterns of text production. It becomes clear which strategies, practices and routines of text production are repeated as basic patterns within individual writing processes or the production of an individual, an organization, a culture etc. and on which conditions such as time pressure and experience their variation depends. For example, it can be seen that in journalism experienced writers - in contrast to inexperienced - have more and more differentiated strategies to control the production processes and to design their communication products functionally.

Research framework Transdisciplinary Action Research: Further develop practice

In the research framework of the Transdisciplinary Research Action ( action research ) Perrin optimization processes of text production tested in organizations. It becomes clear how practice and research can contribute and combine their knowledge (everyday knowledge, professional knowledge, scientific knowledge) in order to improve the text production of an editorial office through mutual learning. It shows, for example, that and how journalistic quality can be determined participatively and discursively operationalized in quality circles of mission statement, criticism and coaching, so that the criteria of the desired quality are intrinsically anchored, procedurally implementable and thus effective.

Research framework Realist Social Theory: Include conflicting realities

In the research framework of integrative social theories such as the Realist Social Theory, Perrin examines the interactions between text production and its organizational and social framework. It becomes clear which stakeholder groups influence the text production of an institution and, conversely, are influenced by it. It shows, for example, that the management of a public broadcasting company in the field of tension between political mandate and market economy competition has long since abandoned the public service mandate, but that individual experienced journalists have developed strategies, practices and routines with which they meet both claims at the same time.

Research framework theory of dynamic systems: Identifying emergent solutions

In the research framework of the theory of dynamic systems, Perrin examines the variation and emergence of patterns in text production. It becomes clear where, how and under which favorable conditions in microprocesses, ideas lead to new forms that can become embedded and change the text production of an organization or society, for example, which arrangements favor the ideas that are now necessary for this Overcoming the dramaturgical vacuum to which the media convergence has led: The ever stronger intermeshing of conventional mass media such as television and social media requires fundamentally new communication offers and corresponding patterns of text production.

Fonts (selection)

• Perrin, Daniel, Kramsch, Claire (Eds.) (2019). Transdisciplinarity in Applied Linguistics (AILA Review, Volume 31) Amsterdam / New York: John Benjamin. on-line
• Knapp, Karlfried, Antos, Gerd, Perrin, Daniel, Verspoor, Marjolijn (Series eds.). Handbooks of Applied Linguistics Series. Boston: de Gruyter online .
• Cotter, Colleen, Perrin, Daniel (Eds.) (2018). The Routledge Handbook of Language and Media. London: Routledge. on-line
• Jakobs, Eva-Maria, Perrin, Daniel (Eds.). (2014). Handbook of writing and text production (Vol. 10). Boston: De Gruyter.
• Perrin, Daniel. (2015). Media Linguistics (3 ed.). Constance: UVK.
• Perrin, Daniel (2013). Linguistics of Newswriting. Amsterdam, New York: John Benjamin.
• Perrin, Daniel, Wildi, Marc (2010). Statistical modeling of writing processes. In Charles Bazerman (Ed.), Traditions of writing research. New York: Routledge.
• Perrin, Daniel, Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen (2008). Progression analysis. Tracing journalistic language awareness. In Marcel Burger (Ed.), L 'analyze linguistique des discours des médias: théories, méthodes en enjeux. Entre sciences du langage et sciences de la communication et des médias (pp. 155–182). Québec: Nota Bene.
• Perrin, Daniel, Rosenberger, Nicole (2008). Writing at work. Effective texts through efficient work techniques (2 ed.). Berlin: Cornelsen Pocket Business.
• Jakobs, Eva-Maria, Perrin, Daniel (2008). Training of writing and reading. In Gert Rickheit, Hans Strohner (Eds.), The Mouton-De Gruyter Handbooks of Applied Linguistics: Communicative competence (Vol. 1, pp. 359-393). New York: De Gruyter.
• Gnach, Aleksandra, Wiesner, Esther, Bertschi-Kaufmann, Andrea, Perrin, Daniel (2007). Children's writing processes when using computers. Insights based on combining analyzes of product and process. Research in Comparative and International Education, 2 (1), 13–28.
• Perrin, Daniel (2006). Media linguistics. Constance: UVK.
• Perrin, Daniel (2003). Towards a pragmatic of writing. In Daniel Perrin (Ed.), The pragmatics of writing. [Journal of Pragmatics. Special Issue 35/6] (pp. 825-828).

Web links

• Daniel Perrin on the website of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences
• List of publications on ResearchID
• Research project Idéé Suisse
• InJAL, International Journal of Applied Linguistics

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Perrin, Daniel (1997). Optimize journalistic writing strategies. Dissertation. University of Bern. [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ See Luginbühl, Martin, & Perrin, Daniel (2011). "What we call the bouncer in the Tagesschau": Altro and ethno categorization of text types in the field of journalistic television news. In Stephan Habscheid (Ed.), Types of text and linguistic action patterns. Linguistic typologies of communication. Berlin et al .: De Gruyter.
3. ↑ See Perrin, Daniel (2001). How journalists write. Results of applied writing process research. Constance: UVK.
4. ↑ See Perrin, Daniel (2006). Journalistic writing. Coaching from a media linguistic perspective. In Karlfried Knapp, Gerd Antos, Michael Becker-Mrotzek, Arnulf Deppermann, Susanne Göpferich, Joachim Grabowski, Michael Klemm & Claudia Villiger (Eds.), Applied Linguistics. A textbook (2 ed., Pp. 255–275). Tübingen et al .: Francke.
5. ^ Perrin, Daniel (2010). "There are two different stories to tell" - collaborative text-picture production strategies of TV journalists. Journal of Pragmatics. doi : 10.1016 / j.pragma.2010.09.023 .
6. ↑ Perrin, Daniel, Albrecht, Christine, Dörig, Roman, Keel, Guido, Stücheli-Herlach, Peter, & Weber, Wibke (2009). Public storytelling in convergent media. Thoroughly examine the key journalistic qualification of writing. Journal writing. [2]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.