Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse

Editors

Birte Bös | University of Duisburg-Essen

Lucia Kornexl | University of Rostock

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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.

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 5] 2015. xiv, 254 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 17 July 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.5

Table of Contents

Preface | pp. vii–ix

Introduction

Birte Bös and Lucia Kornexl | pp. ix–xiv

The formation of public news discourse and metadiscursive terminology

“We have in some former bookes told you”: The significance of metatext in 17th-century news

Nicholas Brownlees | pp. 3–22

Conceptualisations, sources and agents of news: Key terms as signposts of changing journalistic practices

Birte Bös | pp. 23–52

Changing modes of reference and shifts in audience orientation

News in space and time

Claudia Claridge | pp. 55–80

Changing genre conventions and socio-cultural change: Person-mention in 19th-century English advertisements

Minna Palander-Collin | pp. 81–102

Late Modern English death notices: Transformations of a traditional lay audiences

Sarah Borde | pp. 103–134

Medical news in England 1665–1800 in journals for professional and lay audiences

Irma Taavitsainen | pp. 135–160

Transgressing boundaries and shifting styles

Comparing discourse construction in 17th-century news genres: A case study of murder reports

Elisabetta Cecconi | pp. 163–190

Speech-like syntax in written texts: Changing syntactic conventions in news discourse

Alexander Haselow | pp. 191–222

Playing upon news genre conventions: The case of Mark Twain’s news satire

Isabel Ermida | pp. 223–250

Index | pp. 251–254

“The linguistic topics investigated in the book comprise an impressive pool, ranging from the lexicon through the deictics and person reference to syntactic constructions, all of which open a host of new insights on publication forms and genres that have featured news over time.”

Matylda Wlodarczyk, Adam Mickiewicz University, in Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, Volume 2(2), 2016

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