In:Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse
Edited by Minna Palander-Collin, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 6] 2017
► pp. v–vii
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Published online: 29 August 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.6.toc
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Table of contents
Preface
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Chapter 1.English news discourse from newsbooks to new media
3
Maura Ratia
Minna Palander-Collin
Irma Taavitsainen
I.Changing or maintaining conventions?
Chapter 2.Of hopes and plans: Newsmakers’ metadiscourse at the dawn of the newspaper age
15
Birte Bös
Chapter 3.Religious lexis and political ideology in English Civil War newsbooks: A corpus-based analysis of Mercurius Aulicus and Mercurius Britanicus
39
Elisabetta Cecconi
Chapter 4.Contemporary observations on the attention value and selling power of English print advertisements
61
Nicholas Brownlees
Chapter 5.A modest proposal in The Gentleman’s Magazine: A peculiar eighteenth-century advertisement
81
Howard Sklar
Irma Taavitsainen
Chapter 6.Lexical bundles in news discourse 1784–1983
97
Ying Wang
II.Widening audiences
Chapter 7.British popular newspaper traditions: From the nineteenth century to the first tabloid
119
Martin Conboy
Chapter 8.
The Poor Man’s Guardian: The linguistic construction of social groups and their relations
137
Claudia Claridge
Chapter 9.Diffusing political knowledge in illustrated magazines: A comparison between the Portuguese O Panorama and the British The Penny Magazine in 1837–1844
157
Jorge Pedro Sousa
Elsa Simões Lucas Freitas
Sandra Gonçalves Tuna
Chapter 10.From advertisements to letters to the editor: External voicing in early sports match announcements
175
Jan Chovanec
Chapter 11.The public identity of Jack the Ripper in late nineteenth-century British newspapers
199
Minna Nevala
III.New practices
Chapter 12.Narrative vs. ‘objective’ style: Notes on the style of news (agency) reports on violence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
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Maija Stenvall
Chapter 13.Astride two worlds: Emergence of Italian-American identity in the Massachusetts immigrant press
241
John Ryan
Chapter 14.Newspaper funnies at the dawn of modernity: Multimodal humour in early American comic strips
267
Isabel Ermida
