Elisabetta Cecconi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elisabetta Cecconi is involved.
2025 Chapter 2. British ideologies in the (re)-shaping of the American identity: A corpus-based analysis of the possessive our in American newspapers (1764–1783) News with an Attitude: Ideological perspectives in the historical press, Claridge, Claudia (ed.), pp. 12–32 | Chapter
This paper focuses on the use of possessive our in colonial newspapers related to the Imperial Crisis in North America (1764–1783) and analyses its exceptional frequency and distributional patterns through a corpus-based methodology. It investigates the dominant ideologies which (re-)shape the… read more
2020 Chapter 6. Paratext and ideology in 17th-century news genres: A comparative discourse analysis of paratextual elements in news broadside ballads and occasional news pamphlets The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English, Peikola, Matti and Birte Bös (eds.), pp. 137–162 | Chapter
This contribution examines the way in which ideology and the (changing) socio-cultural news values of the time can be mapped onto the news presentation strategies adopted in the paratext of 17th-century news broadside ballads and occasional news pamphlets. Based on Genette’s (1997) notion of… read more
2017 Chapter 3. Religious lexis and political ideology in English Civil War newsbooks: A corpus-based analysis of Mercurius Aulicus and Mercurius Britanicus Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse, Palander-Collin, Minna, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 39–60 | Chapter
In this article I provide a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of two influential English Civil War newsbooks which dominated the arena of seventeenth-century adversarial journalism: the royalist Mercurius Aulicus and the parliamentarian Mercurius Britanicus. Given the major role played by religion… read more
2015 Comparing discourse construction in 17th-century news genres: A case study of murder reports Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse, Bös, Birte and Lucia Kornexl (eds.), pp. 163–190 | Article
In this paper I shall examine aspects of discourse construction in 17th-century
crime reports. To this purpose I shall select four news genres which circulated
in the 17th-century news market, reaching a heterogeneous cross-section of
society: news broadside ballads, occasional news pamphlets,… read more
2009 Comparing seventeenth-century news broadsides and occasional news pamphlets: Interrelatedness in news reporting Early Modern English News Discourse: Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse, Jucker, Andreas H. (ed.), pp. 137–157 | Article