Chapter published in:
Diachronic Developments in English News DiscourseEdited by Minna Palander-Collin, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 6] 2017
► pp. 175–197
Chapter 10From adverts to letters to the editor
External voicing in early sports match announcements
This article deals with external voicing in early news discourse, focusing on how the function of announcing future events was realised in letters to the editor and classified adverts, using data from the British daily newspaper The Times in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The external voicing of texts announcing future newsworthy events – upcoming cricket and football matches – is interpreted in terms of a participation framework in which the newspaper plays the role of the animator, mediating messages originating elsewhere. It is argued that this arrangement of the communicative situation is related to pre-modern journalistic practices that tended to rely on the aggregation of content rather than editorial processing of information.
Keywords: letters to the editor,
The Times
, participation framework, football, Victorian journalism
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Theoretical background
- 3.Data
- 4.Analysis: Forms of announcing
- 4.1Match announcements through letters to the editor
- 4.1.1Case 1: The earliest football-match announcement
- 4.1.2Case 2: Textual correspondences and models
- 4.1.3Case 3: Stressing the informational component
- 4.2Classified advertising: Adverts with cricket-match announcements
- 4.1Match announcements through letters to the editor
- 5.Concluding remarks
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Published online: 29 August 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.6.10cho
https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.6.10cho
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