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Minna Palander-Collin
Palander-Collin, Minna
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University of Helsinki
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Maura Ratia
Ratia, Maura
Maura
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University of Helsinki
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[C]learly fills important gaps in research on English news language. This volume should be of interest not only to scholars specializing in the language of news texts, but also to researchers in fields such as Late Modern English studies and genre studies.
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Chapter 1. English news discourse from newsbooks to new media
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Maura Ratia
Ratia, Maura
Maura
Ratia
University of Helsinki
2
A01
Minna Palander-Collin
Palander-Collin, Minna
Minna
Palander-Collin
University of Helsinki
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A01
Irma Taavitsainen
Taavitsainen, Irma
Irma
Taavitsainen
University of Helsinki
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corpus analysis
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diachrony
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English news discourse
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interdisciplinarity
20
metatextual analysis
20
multimodality
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sociohistorical developments
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This chapter discusses the long diachrony of English news discourse from seventeenth-century newsbooks to the twentieth century and the dawn of multimedia. We shall place news discourse in its context of sociocultural developments considering what might be diachronically constant and what prone to change. The data available for studies on news discourse as well as the potential for interdisciplinary study methods at various interfaces will be highlighted between sociolinguistics, journalism, semiotics, literary theory, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics and sociology.
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Chapter 2. Of hopes and plans
Newsmakers’ metadiscourse at the dawn of the newspaper age
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Birte Bös
Bös, Birte
Birte
Bös
University of Duisburg-Essen
20
inaugural comments
20
keyword analysis
20
metadiscourse
20
self- and other-presentation
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target readerships
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This study investigates a specialised corpus of prefatory metadiscourse, i.e. newsmakers’ comments published in the first editions of their newspapers which appeared on the market at the end of the seventeenth century and in the first decades of the eighteenth century. The material analysed provides insights into contemporary journalistic practices and ideals, the ways newsmakers positioned themselves and projected their audiences. Certain structural similarities, e.g. a recurrent three-step argumentation structure, suggest that newsmakers often resorted to prevalent rhetorical patterns. Yet, the period under investigation also displays some diachronic changes, from a preference for relatively concise, practically oriented comments to more elaborate metadiscursive passages featuring fictional editorial personae and an ornate literary style.
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Chapter 3. Religious lexis and political ideology in English Civil War newsbooks
A corpus-based analysis of <i>Mercurius Aulicus</i> and <i>Mercurius Britanicus</i>
1
A01
Elisabetta Cecconi
Cecconi, Elisabetta
Elisabetta
Cecconi
University of Florence
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adversarial journalism
20
collocational behaviour
20
editors
20
English Civil War newsbooks
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Parliamentarian
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political ideology
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propaganda
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readership
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religious words
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Royalist
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In this article I provide a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of two influential English Civil War newsbooks which dominated the arena of seventeenth-century adversarial journalism: the royalist <i>Mercurius Aulicus</i> and the parliamentarian <i>Mercurius Britanicus</i>. Given the major role played by religion in the outbreak of the Civil War, my paper focuses on religious words and examines their collocational behavior in concordances and larger stretches of discourse. The analysis highlights the discourse strategies adopted by the two editors in order to frame, confirm and legitimate opposite versions of the news events and construe ideological consensus in their readership. In a period of intense experimentation in news rhetoric and political propaganda, this corpus-based investigation documents the development of a strongly factious news style for a growing, politically biased readership.
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Chapter 4. Contemporary observations on the attention value and selling power of English print advertisements (1700–1760)
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A01
Nicholas Brownlees
Brownlees, Nicholas
Nicholas
Brownlees
University of Florence
20
advertisements
20
contemporary observations
20
eighteenth-century English press
20
Newcastle Courant
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One of the most distinctive features of the early eighteenth-century English press was the substantial increase in advertisements. This increase in advertising did not go unnoticed by the leading writers of the day. Addison, Steele, Fielding and Johnson all comment on advertising discourse and its typographical presentation. This contribution analyses these contemporaries’ views within a theoretical framework that Leech (1966) and Gotti (2005) propose in relation to the communicative features and language of advertising discourse. Two of these characteristics are Attention Value and Selling Power. The analysis of eighteenth-century advertising is supported by reference to contemporary advertisements in the <i>Newcastle Courant</i>.
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Chapter 5. A modest proposal in <i>The Gentleman’s Magazine</i>
A peculiar eighteenth-century advertisement
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A01
Howard Sklar
Sklar, Howard
Howard
Sklar
University of Helsinki
2
A01
Irma Taavitsainen
Taavitsainen, Irma
Irma
Taavitsainen
University of Helsinki
20
advertisement
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context
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genre
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irony
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period style
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polite society
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pragmatic analysis
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rhetorical analysis
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satire
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<i>The Gentleman’s Magazine</i> (GM, 1732–1922) was the first periodical magazine targeted at an educated lay readership from polite society. Medical items and related issues were a regular feature, e.g. suicide was a recurring topic in its early years. One example of this was a 1755 mock advertisement advocating a discreet “remedy against life” suitable to “any <i>nobleman, gentleman</i>, or other man of <i>wit, humour</i>, and <i>pleasure</i>”. We approach our task from the point of view of historical pragmatics paying attention to the sociocultural context, and providing a rhetorical analysis to make sense of this peculiar advertisement. The ad seems to build on the dark side of a recently-deceased (1751), notorious Tory politician, who had been a central figure of polite society for decades, but the actual target of the satire must have been something else. We argue that the sociohistorical context with its shared knowledge, as well as the rhetorical structure and stylistic content of the ad itself, provide keys for making sense of the text.
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Chapter 6. Lexical bundles in news discourse 1784–1983
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Ying Wang
Wang, Ying
Ying
Wang
Uppsala University
20
corpus linguistics
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diachronic development
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four-word lexical bundles
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news discourse
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This paper aims to identify and trace the development of four-word lexical bundles characterising news discourse, using a corpus of news articles published in <i>The Times of London</i> between 1784 and 1983. In terms of frequency, there has been an increase until the end of the nineteenth century, followed then by a continual decrease. The explanations take into account the sociohistorical background of early newspapers, including improved technology, increased literacy and journalist movements, which in turn may have resulted in changes in news discourse. At the same time, we can see recurrent structural patterns and functions of such bundles over the two centuries, suggesting a high degree of stability underlying the use of lexical bundles, and by extension, news discourse itself.
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From the nineteenth century to the first tabloid
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Martin Conboy
Conboy, Martin
Martin
Conboy
University of Sheffield
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British
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Daily Mirror
20
newspapers
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popular
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radical rhetoric
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Sunday
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tabloid
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This article traces continuities within the development of British popular newspaper traditions from the Sunday weekly publications of the early and mid-nineteenth century, through the rise of the mass daily press and culminating in the launch of the first British newspaper that could be accurately termed “tabloid” in both format and style: the <i>Daily Mirror</i>. It is claimed that an explicit appeal in these newspapers to readers who see themselves as outside a privileged elite and a corresponding critical approach to elites, both political and social, has always formed part of this commercially successful manifestation of popular culture.
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Chapter 8. The Poor Man’s Guardian
The linguistic construction of social groups and their relations
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A01
Claudia Claridge
Claridge, Claudia
Claudia
Claridge
University of Augsburg
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deixis
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delegitimisation
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group construction
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metaphor
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pronoun
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punctuation
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quotation
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rhetoric
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stylistics
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Radical papers like <i>The Poor Man’s Guardian</i> had an important role in bringing about class consciousness in nineteenth-century Britain. The newspaper linguistically constructs three groups involved in the class struggle in an extended <i>us</i> vs. <i>them</i> deictic constellation, namely the rich and powerful “capitalists” vs. the working class and the radical journalists. Strategies of delegitimisation, such as third-person forms, derogatory epithets, scare quotes, are used for the rich. The other side is split into <i>we</i>-the journalists and <i>we</i>/<i>you</i>-working class readers. The latter are presented positively in contrast to the rich, but also as ignorant, immature, and in need of education by the journalists. The strongly <i>pathos</i>-oriented rhetorical style of the paper underlines the didactic aim of the paper.
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Chapter 9. Diffusing political knowledge in illustrated magazines
A comparison between the Portuguese <i>O Panorama</i> and the British <i>The Penny Magazine</i> in 1837–1844
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A01
Jorge Pedro Sousa
Sousa, Jorge Pedro
Jorge Pedro
Sousa
Fernando Pessoa University
2
A01
Elsa Simões Lucas Freitas
Simões Lucas Freitas, Elsa
Elsa
Simões Lucas Freitas
Fernando Pessoa University
3
A01
Sandra Gonçalves Tuna
Tuna, Sandra Gonçalves
Sandra Gonçalves
Tuna
Fernando Pessoa University
20
discourse analysis
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Illustrated periodicals
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multimodality
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O Panorama
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The Penny Magazine
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It is our purpose to compare two illustrated periodicals (a Portuguese and a British one) during the 1837–1844 period as to the way political issues are addressed and conveyed, as well as to ascertain the underlying cultural and social reasons in the two countries that can explain the approximations and divergences detected. The Portuguese <i>O Panorama</i> (1837–1868) diffused cultural matters in general. It was created by the <i>Sociedade Propagadora dos Conhecimentos Úteis</i> under the patronage of Alexandre Herculano, a famous man of letters, journalist and writer. The first three series of <i>O Panorama</i> are a direct imitation of the British <i>The Penny Magazine</i> (1832–1845), created by Charles Knight, under the auspices of the <i>Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge</i>.
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Chapter 10. From adverts to letters to the editor
External voicing in early sports match announcements
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A01
Jan Chovanec
Chovanec, Jan
Jan
Chovanec
Masaryk University, Brno
20
football
20
letters to the editor
20
participation framework
20
The Times
20
Victorian journalism
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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 <i>The Times</i> 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.
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Chapter 11. The public identity of Jack the Ripper in late nineteenth-century British newspapers
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Minna Nevala
Nevala, Minna
Minna
Nevala
University of Helsinki
20
criminals
20
evaluation
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historical sociopragmatics
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news language
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nineteenth-century Britain
20
Referential terms
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The article studies evaluative language in 200 newspaper articles from the latter half of 1888, focusing on the five canonical Ripper murders. The aim is to study terms used to refer to the Ripper and his murders on the basis of the parameters of intensity, solidarity, and objectivity. This pilot study discusses how in the newspapers the public identity of Jack the Ripper was ultimately developed from a plain perpetrator into a murderous maniac capable of monstrous deeds. The findings indicate that an increase in intensity seems to be linked to a decrease in both solidarity and objectivity. Thus, negative evaluation was increasingly used and person reference to the Ripper changed towards extreme negativity over a relatively short period of time.
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Chapter 12. Narrative vs. “objective” style
Notes on the style of news (agency) reports on violence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
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A01
Maija Stenvall
Stenvall, Maija
Maija
Stenvall
Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English, University of Helsinki
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Affect
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Appraisal
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Functional grammar
20
narrative
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news agencies
20
newspapers
20
objective style
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reporter voice
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responsibility
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violence
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The paper examines stylistic changes in newspaper articles on violence between 1859 and 1910. I have looked both at news narratives, and at signs of the new, “objective” writing style. Whenever possible, I have chosen stories attributed to AP (the Associated Press) and Reuters news agencies, since as global distributors of news, they have had an influential role in creating and reinforcing conventions of news writing. The paper clearly demonstrates the difference between the ghastly, chronological murder stories of the late nineteenth century and the “modern” style adopted in the AP Siedlce narrative in 1906. The first evidence of the intentionally “objective” writing style I found in Reuters telegrams on the Siedlce pogrom in 1906.
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Chapter 13. Astride two worlds
Emergence of Italian-American identity in the Massachusetts immigrant press
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A01
Michael J. Ryan
Ryan, Michael J.
Michael J.
Ryan
University of Northern Colorado
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assimilation
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code switching
20
cultural preservation
20
English
20
identity construction
20
immigration
20
Italian
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news discourse
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This paper explores the emergence of Italian-American identity and its correlation with changes in format, content, and language over the course of the first five decades of the twentieth century in <i>La Gazzetta del Massachusetts</i> (<i>The Massachusetts Gazette</i>), a weekly newspaper published in Boston, but intended for the Greater New England Italian community. A representative longitudinal sample of 528 equally-spaced issues between 1903 and 1949 reveals patterns that are suggestive of an evolving population and an ethnic community’s changing attitudes toward its ancestral culture and relationship with its homeland. Findings relate to prior work in the areas of the Italian immigrant language press, sociology, cultural assimilation and preservation, as well as studies of identity construction through language.
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Chapter 14. Newspaper funnies at the dawn of modernity
Multimodal humour in early American comic strips
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A01
Isabel Ermida
Ermida, Isabel
Isabel
Ermida
University of Minho
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Comics
20
discourse
20
humour
20
multimodality
20
press
20
semantic
20
semiotic
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This article offers a model for the analysis of comics, focusing on a classic of American Sunday newspapers: Outcault’s <i>The Yellow Kid</i>. As an early form of Press humour, these strips provide lavish material for the analysis of multimodal discourse and at the same time lend themselves to a study of the sociocultural and ideological constitution of America at the emergence of modernity. The analytical model is a threefold framework covering structural elements (“modes”), sociological elements (“functions”) and semantic elements (“mechanisms”). With these interpretive tools, it is expected that the construction of humorous meaning, as well as the usage of various semiotic resources for amusement purposes, becomes clearer. Moreover, the article glimpses at the nature of late nineteenth-century American society, in its vibrant, yet challenging, evolution.
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University of Helsinki
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University of Helsinki
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[C]learly fills important gaps in research on English news language. This volume should be of interest not only to scholars specializing in the language of news texts, but also to researchers in fields such as Late Modern English studies and genre studies.
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Maura Ratia
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Maura
Ratia
University of Helsinki
2
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Minna Palander-Collin
Palander-Collin, Minna
Minna
Palander-Collin
University of Helsinki
3
A01
Irma Taavitsainen
Taavitsainen, Irma
Irma
Taavitsainen
University of Helsinki
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corpus analysis
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diachrony
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English news discourse
20
interdisciplinarity
20
metatextual analysis
20
multimodality
20
sociohistorical developments
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This chapter discusses the long diachrony of English news discourse from seventeenth-century newsbooks to the twentieth century and the dawn of multimedia. We shall place news discourse in its context of sociocultural developments considering what might be diachronically constant and what prone to change. The data available for studies on news discourse as well as the potential for interdisciplinary study methods at various interfaces will be highlighted between sociolinguistics, journalism, semiotics, literary theory, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics and sociology.
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Chapter 2. Of hopes and plans
Newsmakers’ metadiscourse at the dawn of the newspaper age
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Birte Bös
Bös, Birte
Birte
Bös
University of Duisburg-Essen
20
inaugural comments
20
keyword analysis
20
metadiscourse
20
self- and other-presentation
20
target readerships
01
This study investigates a specialised corpus of prefatory metadiscourse, i.e. newsmakers’ comments published in the first editions of their newspapers which appeared on the market at the end of the seventeenth century and in the first decades of the eighteenth century. The material analysed provides insights into contemporary journalistic practices and ideals, the ways newsmakers positioned themselves and projected their audiences. Certain structural similarities, e.g. a recurrent three-step argumentation structure, suggest that newsmakers often resorted to prevalent rhetorical patterns. Yet, the period under investigation also displays some diachronic changes, from a preference for relatively concise, practically oriented comments to more elaborate metadiscursive passages featuring fictional editorial personae and an ornate literary style.
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Chapter 3. Religious lexis and political ideology in English Civil War newsbooks
A corpus-based analysis of <i>Mercurius Aulicus</i> and <i>Mercurius Britanicus</i>
1
A01
Elisabetta Cecconi
Cecconi, Elisabetta
Elisabetta
Cecconi
University of Florence
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adversarial journalism
20
collocational behaviour
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editors
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English Civil War newsbooks
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Parliamentarian
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political ideology
20
propaganda
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readership
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religious words
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Royalist
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In this article I provide a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of two influential English Civil War newsbooks which dominated the arena of seventeenth-century adversarial journalism: the royalist <i>Mercurius Aulicus</i> and the parliamentarian <i>Mercurius Britanicus</i>. Given the major role played by religion in the outbreak of the Civil War, my paper focuses on religious words and examines their collocational behavior in concordances and larger stretches of discourse. The analysis highlights the discourse strategies adopted by the two editors in order to frame, confirm and legitimate opposite versions of the news events and construe ideological consensus in their readership. In a period of intense experimentation in news rhetoric and political propaganda, this corpus-based investigation documents the development of a strongly factious news style for a growing, politically biased readership.
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Chapter 4. Contemporary observations on the attention value and selling power of English print advertisements (1700–1760)
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Nicholas Brownlees
Brownlees, Nicholas
Nicholas
Brownlees
University of Florence
20
advertisements
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contemporary observations
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eighteenth-century English press
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Newcastle Courant
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One of the most distinctive features of the early eighteenth-century English press was the substantial increase in advertisements. This increase in advertising did not go unnoticed by the leading writers of the day. Addison, Steele, Fielding and Johnson all comment on advertising discourse and its typographical presentation. This contribution analyses these contemporaries’ views within a theoretical framework that Leech (1966) and Gotti (2005) propose in relation to the communicative features and language of advertising discourse. Two of these characteristics are Attention Value and Selling Power. The analysis of eighteenth-century advertising is supported by reference to contemporary advertisements in the <i>Newcastle Courant</i>.
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Chapter 5. A modest proposal in <i>The Gentleman’s Magazine</i>
A peculiar eighteenth-century advertisement
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Howard Sklar
Sklar, Howard
Howard
Sklar
University of Helsinki
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Irma Taavitsainen
Taavitsainen, Irma
Irma
Taavitsainen
University of Helsinki
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advertisement
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context
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genre
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irony
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period style
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polite society
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pragmatic analysis
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rhetorical analysis
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satire
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<i>The Gentleman’s Magazine</i> (GM, 1732–1922) was the first periodical magazine targeted at an educated lay readership from polite society. Medical items and related issues were a regular feature, e.g. suicide was a recurring topic in its early years. One example of this was a 1755 mock advertisement advocating a discreet “remedy against life” suitable to “any <i>nobleman, gentleman</i>, or other man of <i>wit, humour</i>, and <i>pleasure</i>”. We approach our task from the point of view of historical pragmatics paying attention to the sociocultural context, and providing a rhetorical analysis to make sense of this peculiar advertisement. The ad seems to build on the dark side of a recently-deceased (1751), notorious Tory politician, who had been a central figure of polite society for decades, but the actual target of the satire must have been something else. We argue that the sociohistorical context with its shared knowledge, as well as the rhetorical structure and stylistic content of the ad itself, provide keys for making sense of the text.
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Chapter 6. Lexical bundles in news discourse 1784–1983
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Ying Wang
Wang, Ying
Ying
Wang
Uppsala University
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corpus linguistics
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diachronic development
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four-word lexical bundles
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news discourse
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This paper aims to identify and trace the development of four-word lexical bundles characterising news discourse, using a corpus of news articles published in <i>The Times of London</i> between 1784 and 1983. In terms of frequency, there has been an increase until the end of the nineteenth century, followed then by a continual decrease. The explanations take into account the sociohistorical background of early newspapers, including improved technology, increased literacy and journalist movements, which in turn may have resulted in changes in news discourse. At the same time, we can see recurrent structural patterns and functions of such bundles over the two centuries, suggesting a high degree of stability underlying the use of lexical bundles, and by extension, news discourse itself.
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Part II. Widening audiences
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Chapter 7. British popular newspaper traditions
From the nineteenth century to the first tabloid
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Martin Conboy
Conboy, Martin
Martin
Conboy
University of Sheffield
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British
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Daily Mirror
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newspapers
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popular
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radical rhetoric
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Sunday
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tabloid
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This article traces continuities within the development of British popular newspaper traditions from the Sunday weekly publications of the early and mid-nineteenth century, through the rise of the mass daily press and culminating in the launch of the first British newspaper that could be accurately termed “tabloid” in both format and style: the <i>Daily Mirror</i>. It is claimed that an explicit appeal in these newspapers to readers who see themselves as outside a privileged elite and a corresponding critical approach to elites, both political and social, has always formed part of this commercially successful manifestation of popular culture.
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Chapter 8. The Poor Man’s Guardian
The linguistic construction of social groups and their relations
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Claudia Claridge
Claridge, Claudia
Claudia
Claridge
University of Augsburg
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deixis
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delegitimisation
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group construction
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metaphor
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pronoun
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punctuation
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quotation
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rhetoric
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stylistics
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Radical papers like <i>The Poor Man’s Guardian</i> had an important role in bringing about class consciousness in nineteenth-century Britain. The newspaper linguistically constructs three groups involved in the class struggle in an extended <i>us</i> vs. <i>them</i> deictic constellation, namely the rich and powerful “capitalists” vs. the working class and the radical journalists. Strategies of delegitimisation, such as third-person forms, derogatory epithets, scare quotes, are used for the rich. The other side is split into <i>we</i>-the journalists and <i>we</i>/<i>you</i>-working class readers. The latter are presented positively in contrast to the rich, but also as ignorant, immature, and in need of education by the journalists. The strongly <i>pathos</i>-oriented rhetorical style of the paper underlines the didactic aim of the paper.
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Chapter 9. Diffusing political knowledge in illustrated magazines
A comparison between the Portuguese <i>O Panorama</i> and the British <i>The Penny Magazine</i> in 1837–1844
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Jorge Pedro Sousa
Sousa, Jorge Pedro
Jorge Pedro
Sousa
Fernando Pessoa University
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Elsa Simões Lucas Freitas
Simões Lucas Freitas, Elsa
Elsa
Simões Lucas Freitas
Fernando Pessoa University
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A01
Sandra Gonçalves Tuna
Tuna, Sandra Gonçalves
Sandra Gonçalves
Tuna
Fernando Pessoa University
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discourse analysis
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Illustrated periodicals
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multimodality
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O Panorama
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The Penny Magazine
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It is our purpose to compare two illustrated periodicals (a Portuguese and a British one) during the 1837–1844 period as to the way political issues are addressed and conveyed, as well as to ascertain the underlying cultural and social reasons in the two countries that can explain the approximations and divergences detected. The Portuguese <i>O Panorama</i> (1837–1868) diffused cultural matters in general. It was created by the <i>Sociedade Propagadora dos Conhecimentos Úteis</i> under the patronage of Alexandre Herculano, a famous man of letters, journalist and writer. The first three series of <i>O Panorama</i> are a direct imitation of the British <i>The Penny Magazine</i> (1832–1845), created by Charles Knight, under the auspices of the <i>Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge</i>.
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Chapter 10. From adverts to letters to the editor
External voicing in early sports match announcements
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Jan Chovanec
Chovanec, Jan
Jan
Chovanec
Masaryk University, Brno
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football
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letters to the editor
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participation framework
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The Times
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Victorian journalism
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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 <i>The Times</i> 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.
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Chapter 11. The public identity of Jack the Ripper in late nineteenth-century British newspapers
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Minna Nevala
Nevala, Minna
Minna
Nevala
University of Helsinki
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criminals
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evaluation
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historical sociopragmatics
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news language
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nineteenth-century Britain
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Referential terms
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The article studies evaluative language in 200 newspaper articles from the latter half of 1888, focusing on the five canonical Ripper murders. The aim is to study terms used to refer to the Ripper and his murders on the basis of the parameters of intensity, solidarity, and objectivity. This pilot study discusses how in the newspapers the public identity of Jack the Ripper was ultimately developed from a plain perpetrator into a murderous maniac capable of monstrous deeds. The findings indicate that an increase in intensity seems to be linked to a decrease in both solidarity and objectivity. Thus, negative evaluation was increasingly used and person reference to the Ripper changed towards extreme negativity over a relatively short period of time.
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Chapter 12. Narrative vs. “objective” style
Notes on the style of news (agency) reports on violence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
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Maija Stenvall
Stenvall, Maija
Maija
Stenvall
Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English, University of Helsinki
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Affect
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Appraisal
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Functional grammar
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narrative
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news agencies
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newspapers
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objective style
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reporter voice
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responsibility
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violence
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The paper examines stylistic changes in newspaper articles on violence between 1859 and 1910. I have looked both at news narratives, and at signs of the new, “objective” writing style. Whenever possible, I have chosen stories attributed to AP (the Associated Press) and Reuters news agencies, since as global distributors of news, they have had an influential role in creating and reinforcing conventions of news writing. The paper clearly demonstrates the difference between the ghastly, chronological murder stories of the late nineteenth century and the “modern” style adopted in the AP Siedlce narrative in 1906. The first evidence of the intentionally “objective” writing style I found in Reuters telegrams on the Siedlce pogrom in 1906.
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Chapter 13. Astride two worlds
Emergence of Italian-American identity in the Massachusetts immigrant press
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Michael J. Ryan
Ryan, Michael J.
Michael J.
Ryan
University of Northern Colorado
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assimilation
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code switching
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cultural preservation
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English
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identity construction
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immigration
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Italian
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news discourse
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This paper explores the emergence of Italian-American identity and its correlation with changes in format, content, and language over the course of the first five decades of the twentieth century in <i>La Gazzetta del Massachusetts</i> (<i>The Massachusetts Gazette</i>), a weekly newspaper published in Boston, but intended for the Greater New England Italian community. A representative longitudinal sample of 528 equally-spaced issues between 1903 and 1949 reveals patterns that are suggestive of an evolving population and an ethnic community’s changing attitudes toward its ancestral culture and relationship with its homeland. Findings relate to prior work in the areas of the Italian immigrant language press, sociology, cultural assimilation and preservation, as well as studies of identity construction through language.
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Chapter 14. Newspaper funnies at the dawn of modernity
Multimodal humour in early American comic strips
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Isabel Ermida
Ermida, Isabel
Isabel
Ermida
University of Minho
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Comics
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discourse
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humour
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multimodality
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press
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semantic
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semiotic
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This article offers a model for the analysis of comics, focusing on a classic of American Sunday newspapers: Outcault’s <i>The Yellow Kid</i>. As an early form of Press humour, these strips provide lavish material for the analysis of multimodal discourse and at the same time lend themselves to a study of the sociocultural and ideological constitution of America at the emergence of modernity. The analytical model is a threefold framework covering structural elements (“modes”), sociological elements (“functions”) and semantic elements (“mechanisms”). With these interpretive tools, it is expected that the construction of humorous meaning, as well as the usage of various semiotic resources for amusement purposes, becomes clearer. Moreover, the article glimpses at the nature of late nineteenth-century American society, in its vibrant, yet challenging, evolution.
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