In:Early Modern English News Discourse: Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 187] 2009
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
Prefacevii
Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse in Early Modern Britain
Newspapers
Crime and punishment
Reading late eighteenth-century want ads
“Alwayes in te Orbe of honest Mirth, and next to Truth”: Proto-infotainment in the Welch Mercury
Religious language in early English newspapers?
“As silly as an Irish Teague”: Comparisons in early English news discourse
“Place yer bets” and “Let us hope”: Imperatives and their pragmatic functions in news reports
Pamphlets
Comparing seventeenth-century news broadsides and occasional news pamphlets: Interrelatedness in news reporting
“From you, my Lord, professions are but words – they are so much bait for fools to catch at”: Impoliteness strategies in the 1797–1800 Act of Union pamphlet debate
Scientific news discourse
“Joyful News out of the Newfound World”: Medical and scientific news reports in Early Modern England
News filtering processes in the Philosophical Transactions
Index
