Article published in:
Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News DiscourseEdited by Birte Bös and Lucia Kornexl
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 5] 2015
► pp. 3–22
“We have in some former bookes told you”
The significance of metatext in 17th-century news
This contribution examines metatextual comment in 17th-century periodical
news publications. Periodical news publication was a new genre and those
involved in its production had to determine the language they should use in
the writing up of such news. In the article I analyze the terminology 17thcentury
news writers themselves adopt in relation to their own publications and
the news they are presenting. The analysis focuses both on the frequency and
content of editorial metadiscourse between 1620 (the start of periodical news)
and 1695 (the lapse of the Licensing Act). The diachronic analysis of frame and
endophoric metatextual markers provides insight into editorial aspirations,
anxieties, commercial concerns and general attitudes to news discourse.
Keywords: 17th-century English news, book, coranto, editorial metadiscourse, endophoric markers, frame markers, London Gazette, newsbook, pamphlet
Published online: 24 July 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.5.01bro
https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.5.01bro
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