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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Discourse Markers in Early Modern English

Discourse Markers in Early Modern English
Author: Ursula Lutzky
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2012
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027256322

This volume provides new insights into the nature of the Early Modern English discourse markers marry, well and why through the analysis of three corpora (A Corpus of English Dialogues, 1560-1760, the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, and the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English). By combining both quantitative and qualitative approaches in the study of pragmatic markers, innovative findings are reached about their distribution throughout the period 1500-1760, their attestation in different speech-related text types as well as similarities and differences in their functions. Additionally, this work engages in a sociopragmatic study, based on the sociopragmatically annotated Drama Corpus of almost a quarter of a million words, to enhance our understanding about their use by characters of different social status and gender. This volume therefore constitutes an essential piece of the puzzle in our attempt to gain a full picture of discourse marker use.

News Discourse in Early Modern Britain

News Discourse in Early Modern Britain
Author: Nicholas Brownlees
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9783039108053

This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the Conference on Historical News Discourse (CHINED) that was held in Florence (Italy) on 2-3 September 2004. The aim of the Conference was to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of recent research in the field of news discourse in early modern Britain. The first section of the volume focuses on news discourse in serial publications while the second part examines aspects of news language in non-serial works. Contributions include synchronic and diachronic analyses of reportage, polemic, propaganda, review journalism and advertisements in a wide range of texts including newsletters, pamphlets and newspapers. Each section is structured chronologically so that the reader can appreciate aspects of the general historical development of news discourse. The variety of topics and methodologies reflects some of the most interesting research being carried out in the field.

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.

Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse

Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse
Author: Birte Bös
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027268568

This volume explores the dynamics of genre conventions in historical English news discourse. The contributions cover a wide spectrum of news writing and publication formats: from corantos to modern tabloids, from prototypical hard news stories and crime reports to more specialised genres such as medical and scientific news, advertisements, death notices and spoof news. Investigating linguistic, pragmatic and social factors, the authors trace the triggers, mechanisms and agents of change that have shaped genre conventions in historical news discourse from the 17th century to the present day.

Sappho in Early Modern England

Sappho in Early Modern England
Author: Harriette Andreadis
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2001-07-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780226020082

In Sappho in Early Modern England, Harriette Andreadis examines public and private expressions of female same-sex sexuality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Before the language of modern sexual identities developed, a variety of discourses in both literary and extraliterary texts began to form a lexicon of female intimacy. Looking at accounts of non-normative female sexualities in travel narratives, anatomies, and even marital advice books, Andreadis outlines the vernacular through which a female same-sex erotics first entered verbal consciousness. She finds that "respectable" women of the middle classes and aristocracy who did not wish to identify themselves as sexually transgressive developed new vocabularies to describe their desires; women that we might call bisexual or lesbian, referred to in their day as tribades, fricatrices, or "rubsters," emerged in erotic discourses that allowed them to acknowledge their sexuality and still evade disapproval.

The Language of Periodical News in Seventeenth-Century England

The Language of Periodical News in Seventeenth-Century England
Author: Nicholas Brownlees
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2011-05-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443830267

This volume follows the beginnings and development of seventeenth-century English periodical print news and sees how contemporary news writers shaped their news discourse over the decades. Interdisciplinary in its approach, the volume analyses the different strategies employed by news writers of the day as they determined how best to present and write up both foreign and domestic events for a news-obsessed English readership. In his examination of the language used in corantos, newsbooks and gazettes—the first forms of periodical news in the English press—Nicholas Brownlees provides innovative analyses regarding a rich variety of topics including: the role of translation in early periodical news; the language of hard news in corantos and news pamphlets; forms and styles of epistolary news; fluctuating editorial strategies used to address and involve the reader; text structure and prototypical headlines; English news discourse within a wider European news context; the language of propaganda in the English Civil War; periodicity and the reporting of the Tuscan crisis in 1653; the language of ‘Advertisements’ in The London Gazette; the changing fortunes and semantics of News, Intelligence and Advice. In its focus on how news writers worked and experimented with seventeenth-century English language structures and discourse conventions to forge a style of news rhetoric that could inform, persuade and even entertain, this volume is essential reading for all historians, news analysts and historical linguists working in the early modern period.

Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain

Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain
Author: Nicholas Phillipson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 1993-02-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 052139242X

Inspired by the work of intellectual historian J. G. A. Pocock, this 1993 collection explores the political ideologies of early modern Britain.

News in Early Modern Europe

News in Early Modern Europe
Author: Simon Davies
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2014-07-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004276866

News in Early Modern Europe presents new research on the nature, production, and dissemination of a variety of forms of news writing from across Europe during the early modern period.

News Networks in Early Modern Europe

News Networks in Early Modern Europe
Author: Joad Raymond
Publisher:
Total Pages: 892
Release: 2016-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004277175

In News Networks 35 scholars from 10 countries give a new account of the history of European news, emphasising its transnational character and the international transmission of forms and modes of news as well as information.