In:Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse
Edited by Birte Bös and Lucia Kornexl
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 5] 2015
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 24 July 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.5.toc
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Table of contents
Preface
Introduction
The formation of public news discourse and metadiscursive terminology
“We have in some former bookes told you”: The significance of metatext in 17th-century news
Conceptualisations, sources and agents of news: Key terms as signposts of changing journalistic practices
Changing modes of reference and shifts in audience orientation
News in space and time
Changing genre conventions and socio-cultural change: Person-mention in 19th-century English advertisements
Late Modern English death notices: Transformations of a traditional lay audiences
Medical news in England 1665–1800 in journals for professional and lay audiences
Transgressing boundaries and shifting styles
Comparing discourse construction in 17th-century news genres: A case study of murder reports
Speech-like syntax in written texts: Changing syntactic conventions in news discourse
Playing upon news genre conventions: The case of Mark Twain’s news satire
Index
