Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction ix
5. The formation of public news discourse and metadiscursive terminology
6. “We have in some former bookes told you” 3
7. Conceptualisations, sources and agents of news 23
8. Changing modes of reference and shifts in audience orientation
9. News in space and time 55
10. Changing genre conventions and socio-cultural change 81
11. Late Modern English death notices 103
12. Medical news in England 1665–1800 in journals for professional and lay audiences 135
13. Transgressing boundaries and shifting styles
14. Comparing discourse construction in 17th-century news genres 163
15. Speech-like syntax in written texts 191
16. Playing upon news genre conventions 223
17. Index 251