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Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse
This volume explores the dynamics of genre conventions in historical English news discourse. The contributions cover a wide spectrum of news writing and publication formats: from corantos to modern tabloids, from prototypical hard news stories and crime reports to more specialised genres such as medical and scientific news, advertisements, death notices and spoof news. Investigating linguistic, pragmatic and social factors, the authors trace the triggers, mechanisms and agents of change that have shaped genre conventions in historical news discourse from the 17th century to the present day.
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 5] 2015. xiv, 254 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 17 July 2015
Published online on 17 July 2015
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. vii–ix
- IntroductionBirte Bös and Lucia Kornexl | pp. ix–xiv
- The formation of public news discourse and metadiscursive terminology
- “We have in some former bookes told you”: The significance of metatext in 17th-century newsNicholas Brownlees | pp. 3–22
- Conceptualisations, sources and agents of news: Key terms as signposts of changing journalistic practicesBirte Bös | pp. 23–52
- Changing modes of reference and shifts in audience orientation
- News in space and timeClaudia Claridge | pp. 55–80
- Changing genre conventions and socio-cultural change: Person-mention in 19th-century English advertisementsMinna Palander-Collin | pp. 81–102
- Late Modern English death notices: Transformations of a traditional lay audiencesSarah Borde | pp. 103–134
- Medical news in England 1665–1800 in journals for professional and lay audiencesIrma Taavitsainen | pp. 135–160
- Transgressing boundaries and shifting styles
- Comparing discourse construction in 17th-century news genres: A case study of murder reportsElisabetta Cecconi | pp. 163–190
- Speech-like syntax in written texts: Changing syntactic conventions in news discourseAlexander Haselow | pp. 191–222
- Playing upon news genre conventions: The case of Mark Twain’s news satireIsabel Ermida | pp. 223–250
- Index | pp. 251–254
“The linguistic topics investigated in the book comprise an impressive pool, ranging from the lexicon through the deictics and person reference to syntactic constructions, all of which open a host of new insights on publication forms and genres that have featured news over time.”
Matylda Wlodarczyk, Adam Mickiewicz University, in Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, Volume 2(2), 2016
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