Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse

Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse
Author: Minna Palander-Collin
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2017-08-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027265518

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.

Early Modern English News Discourse

Early Modern English News Discourse
Author: Andreas H. Jucker
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902725432X

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News Discourse

News Discourse
Author: Monika Bednarek
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-06-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1441147993

Cutting edge introduction to news discourse, offering an authoritative guide to analyzing language and images and in print and online.

Genre in Language, Discourse and Cognition

Genre in Language, Discourse and Cognition
Author: Ninke Stukker
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2016-05-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110469634

The study of genre is scattered across research disciplines. This volume offers an integrative perspective starting from the assumption that genres are cognitive constructs, recognized, maintained and employed by members of a given discourse community. Its central questions are: What does genre knowledge consist of? How is it organized in cognition? How is it applied in discourse production and interpretation? How is it reflected in language use?

Syntactic Change in Late Modern English

Syntactic Change in Late Modern English
Author: Erik Smitterberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2021-11-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108637078

Syntactic Change in Late Modern English presents a stability paradox to linguists; despite the many social changes that took place between 1700 and 1900, the language appeared to be structurally stable during this period. This book resolves this paradox by presenting a new, idiolect-centred perspective on language change, and shows how this framework is applicable to change in any language. It then demonstrates how an idiolect-centred framework can be reconciled with corpus-linguistic methodology through four original case studies. These concern colloquialization (the process by which oral features spread to writing) and densification (the process by which meaning is condensed into shorter linguistic units), two types of change that characterize Modern English. The case studies also shed light on the role of genre and gender in language change and contribute to the discussion of how to operationalize frequency in corpus linguistics. This study will be essential reading for researchers in historical linguistics, corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics.

Speech Representation in the History of English

Speech Representation in the History of English
Author: Peter J. Grund
Publisher:
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2020-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0190918063

This volume explores how speakers and writers mark, structure, and discuss a previous speech event or fictional speech in historical periods. Focusing on the Early Modern English and the Late Modern English periods, the book covers multiple genres including witness depositions, literary texts, letters, histories, and spoken language. The chapters draw on historical sociolinguistics, historical pragmatics, and corpus linguistics to show a wide array of approaches to the study of speech representation in the history of English.

Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change

Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change
Author: Richard J. Whitt
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027263507

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the intersecting fields of corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, and genre-based studies of language usage. Papers in this collection are devoted to presenting relevant methods pertinent to corpus-based studies of the connection between genre and language change, linguistic changes that occur in particular genres, and specific diachronic phenomena that are influenced by genre factors to greater and lesser degrees. Data are drawn from a number of languages, and the scope of the studies presented here is both short- and long-term, covering cases of recent change as well as more long-term alterations.

Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions

Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions
Author: Pascal Hohaus
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027260524

Mood, modality and evidentiality are popular and dynamic areas in linguistics. Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions – Categories, co-text, and context focuses on the specific issue of the ways language users express permission, obligation, volition (intention), possibility and ability, necessity and prediction linguistically. Using a range of evidence and corpus data collected from different sources, the authors of this volume examine the distribution and functions of a range of patterns involving modalising expressions as predominantly found in standard American English, British English or Hong Kong English, but also in Japanese. The authors are particularly interested in addressing (co-)textual manifestations of modalising expressions as well as their distribution across different text-types and thus filling a gap research was unable to plug in the past. Thoughts on categorising or re-categorising modalising expressions initiate and complement a multi-perspectival enterprise that is intended to bring research in this area a step forward.

Methods in Historical Corpus Pragmatics

Methods in Historical Corpus Pragmatics
Author: Daniela Landert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2024-02-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1009237381

Based on an extensive corpus-based study, this revealing book explores how epistemic stance is expressed in the early modern period, and in doing so, presents new methodologies for using corpora to investigate issues in historical pragmatics. It provides a new, corpus-driven method for the analysis of pragmatic functions that rely on context-dependent interpretations. By retrieving passages that include a high-density of the pragmatic function under investigation, the subsequent analysis can reveal previously neglected forms and context-dependent factors. It includes four empirical studies that apply the method to the analysis of epistemic stance in four Early Modern English corpora, the result of which emphasise the importance of context for the expression of stance. It also includes an appendix with inventories of Early Modern English stance expressions, offering starting points for further research studies. It is essential reading for researchers and students in historical pragmatics and corpus pragmatics.

Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse

Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2015-06-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9042029102

This volume presents current state-of-the-art discussions in corpus-based linguistic research of the English language. The papers deal with Present-day English, worldwide varieties of English and the history of the English language. A special focus of the volume are studies in the broad field of corpus pragmatics and corpus-based discourse analysis. It includes corpus-based studies of speech acts, conversational routines, referential expressions and thought styles, as well as studies on the lexis, grammar and semantics of English. And it also includes several studies on technical aspects of corpus compilation, fieldwork and parsing.