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Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse
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Minna Palander-Collin
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English
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2017
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The history of English news discourse is characterised by intriguing multilevel developments, and the present cannot be separated from them. For example, audience engagement is by no means an invention of the digital age. This collection highlights major topics that range from newspaper genres like sports reports, advertisements and comic strips to a variety of news practices. All contributions view news discourse in a specific historical period or across time and relate language features to their sociohistorical contexts and changing ideologies. The varying needs and expectations of the newspaper producers, writers and readers, and even news agents, are taken into account. The articles use interdisciplinary study methods and move at interfaces between sociolinguistics, journalism, semiotics, literary theory, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics and sociology.
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Erik Smitterberg, Uppsala University, in Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 2019:
[C]learly fills important gaps in research on English news language. This volume should be of interest not only to scholars specializing in the language of news texts, but also to researchers in fields such as Late Modern English studies and genre studies.
[C]learly fills important gaps in research on English news language. This volume should be of interest not only to scholars specializing in the language of news texts, but also to researchers in fields such as Late Modern English studies and genre studies.
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Table of contents
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Preface
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Chapter 1. English news discourse from newsbooks to new media
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Chapter 2. Of hopes and plans
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Chapter 3. Religious lexis and political ideology in English Civil War newsbooks
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Chapter 4. Contemporary observations on the attention value and selling power of English print advertisements (1700–1760)
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Chapter 5. A modest proposal in The Gentleman’s Magazine
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Chapter 6. Lexical bundles in news discourse 1784–1983
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Chapter 7. British popular newspaper traditions
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Chapter 8. The Poor Man’s Guardian
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Chapter 9. Diffusing political knowledge in illustrated magazines
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Chapter 10. From adverts to letters to the editor
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Chapter 11. The public identity of Jack the Ripper in late nineteenth-century British newspapers
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Chapter 12. Narrative vs. “objective” style
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Chapter 13. Astride two worlds
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Chapter 14. Newspaper funnies at the dawn of modernity
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Index
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August 9, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9789027265517
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Keywords for this book
Communication Studies; Germanic linguistics; Historical linguistics; Discourse studies; English linguistics; Pragmatics
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Professional and scholarly;
