Nicholas Brownlees
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nicholas Brownlees is involved.
2025 Chapter 8. Female-male relations in letters to the editor in The Orphan Reviv'd: or, Powell’s Weekly Journal (1719–1720) News with an Attitude: Ideological perspectives in the historical press, Claridge, Claudia (ed.), pp. 156–176 | Chapter
This chapter examines the discursive realisation of female-male relations in letters to the editor (LTEs) in Elizabeth Powell’s The Orphan Reviv'd: or, Powell’s Weekly Journal (1719–1720) and four other early eighteenth-century newspapers. LTEs about female-male relations in the Orphan Reviv'd… read more
2017 Chapter 4. Contemporary observations on the attention value and selling power of English print advertisements (1700–1760) Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse, Palander-Collin, Minna, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 61–79 | Chapter
One of the most distinctive features of the early eighteenth-century English press was the substantial increase in advertisements. This increase in advertising did not go unnoticed by the leading writers of the day. Addison, Steele, Fielding and Johnson all comment on advertising discourse and its… read more
2017 “He tells us that”: Strategies of reporting adversarial news in the English Civil War Historical (socio)pragmatics at present, Włodarczyk, Matylda and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 235–251 | Article
In this paper, I examine a form of argumentation employed by one of the most prominent parliamentarian news pamphlets of the English Civil War (1642–1649). The pamphlet in question is Mercurius Britanicus. It was founded to counter through its pages the news that was being published in Mercurius… read more
2015 “We have in some former bookes told you”: The significance of metatext in 17th-century news Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse, Bös, Birte and Lucia Kornexl (eds.), pp. 3–22 | Article
This contribution examines metatextual comment in 17th-century periodical
news publications. Periodical news publication was a new genre and those
involved in its production had to determine the language they should use in
the writing up of such news. In the article I analyze the terminology… read more
2012 Reporting the news in English and Italian diplomatic correspondence Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe, Dossena, Marina and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), pp. 121–138 | Article
This contribution examines at both a textual superstructure and semantic macrostructural level (van Dijk 1985; 1988) two sets of diplomatic newsletters that envoys sent back to their respective Secretary of State at the turn of the eighteenth century. The first set of original manuscripts consists… read more
2009 “Alwayes in te Orbe of honest Mirth, and next to Truth”: Proto-infotainment in the Welch Mercury Early Modern English News Discourse: Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse, Jucker, Andreas H. (ed.), pp. 57–72 | Article