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351017724 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code AHS 6 Eb 15 9789027265517 06 10.1075/ahs.6 13 2017030547 DG 002 02 01 AHS 02 2214-1057 Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse</TitleText> 01 ahs.6 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/ahs.6 1 B01 Minna Palander-Collin Palander-Collin, Minna Minna Palander-Collin University of Helsinki 2 B01 Maura Ratia Ratia, Maura Maura Ratia University of Helsinki 3 B01 Irma Taavitsainen Taavitsainen, Irma Irma Taavitsainen University of Helsinki 01 eng 308 vii 301 LAN009030 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme COMM.CGEN Communication Studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.ENG English linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.GERM Germanic linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.HL Historical linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 06 01 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. 05 [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. Erik Smitterberg, Uppsala University, in Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 2019 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/ahs.6.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027200853.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027200853.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/ahs.6.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/ahs.6.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/ahs.6.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/ahs.6.hb.png 10 01 JB code ahs.6.pre 1 2 2 Miscellaneous 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Preface</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ahs.6.01rat 3 12 10 Chapter 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 1. English news discourse from newsbooks to new media</TitleText> 1 A01 Maura Ratia Ratia, Maura Maura Ratia University of Helsinki 2 A01 Minna Palander-Collin Palander-Collin, Minna Minna Palander-Collin University of Helsinki 3 A01 Irma Taavitsainen Taavitsainen, Irma Irma Taavitsainen University of Helsinki 20 corpus analysis 20 diachrony 20 English news discourse 20 interdisciplinarity 20 metatextual analysis 20 multimodality 20 sociohistorical developments 01 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.p1 Section header 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part I. Changing or maintaining conventions?</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ahs.6.02bos 15 37 23 Chapter 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 2. Of hopes and plans</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Newsmakers’ metadiscourse at the dawn of the newspaper age</Subtitle> 1 A01 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&#8217; 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.03cec 39 60 22 Chapter 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 3. Religious lexis and political ideology in English Civil War newsbooks</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A corpus-based analysis of <i>Mercurius Aulicus</i> and <i>Mercurius Britanicus</i></Subtitle> 1 A01 Elisabetta Cecconi Cecconi, Elisabetta Elisabetta Cecconi University of Florence 20 adversarial journalism 20 collocational behaviour 20 editors 20 English Civil War newsbooks 20 Parliamentarian 20 political ideology 20 propaganda 20 readership 20 religious words 20 Royalist 01 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.04bro 61 79 19 Chapter 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 4. Contemporary observations on the attention value and selling power of English print advertisements (1700–1760)</TitleText> 1 A01 Nicholas Brownlees Brownlees, Nicholas Nicholas Brownlees University of Florence 20 advertisements 20 contemporary observations 20 eighteenth-century English press 20 Newcastle Courant 01 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&#8217; 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>. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.05skl 81 96 16 Chapter 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 5. A modest proposal in <i>The Gentleman’s Magazine</i></TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A peculiar eighteenth-century advertisement</Subtitle> 1 A01 Howard Sklar Sklar, Howard Howard Sklar University of Helsinki 2 A01 Irma Taavitsainen Taavitsainen, Irma Irma Taavitsainen University of Helsinki 20 advertisement 20 context 20 genre 20 irony 20 period style 20 polite society 20 pragmatic analysis 20 rhetorical analysis 20 satire 01 <i>The Gentleman&#8217;s Magazine</i> (GM, 1732&#8211;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 &#8220;remedy against life&#8221; suitable to &#8220;any <i>nobleman, gentleman</i>, or other man of <i>wit, humour</i>, and <i>pleasure</i>&#8221;. 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.06wan 97 116 20 Chapter 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 6. Lexical bundles in news discourse 1784–1983</TitleText> 1 A01 Ying Wang Wang, Ying Ying Wang Uppsala University 20 corpus linguistics 20 diachronic development 20 four-word lexical bundles 20 news discourse 01 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.p2 Section header 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part II. Widening audiences</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ahs.6.07con 119 136 18 Chapter 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 7. British popular newspaper traditions</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">From the nineteenth century to the first tabloid</Subtitle> 1 A01 Martin Conboy Conboy, Martin Martin Conboy University of Sheffield 20 British 20 Daily Mirror 20 newspapers 20 popular 20 radical rhetoric 20 Sunday 20 tabloid 01 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 &#8220;tabloid&#8221; 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.08cla 137 155 19 Chapter 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 8. The Poor Man’s Guardian</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The linguistic construction of social groups and their relations</Subtitle> 1 A01 Claudia Claridge Claridge, Claudia Claudia Claridge University of Augsburg 20 deixis 20 delegitimisation 20 group construction 20 metaphor 20 pronoun 20 punctuation 20 quotation 20 rhetoric 20 stylistics 01 Radical papers like <i>The Poor Man&#8217;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 &#8220;capitalists&#8221; 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.09sou 157 173 17 Chapter 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 9. Diffusing political knowledge in illustrated magazines</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A comparison between the Portuguese <i>O Panorama</i> and the British <i>The Penny Magazine</i> in 1837–1844</Subtitle> 1 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 20 Illustrated periodicals 20 multimodality 20 O Panorama 20 The Penny Magazine 01 It is our purpose to compare two illustrated periodicals (a Portuguese and a British one) during the 1837&#8211;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&#8211;1868) diffused cultural matters in general. It was created by the <i>Sociedade Propagadora dos Conhecimentos &#218;teis</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&#8211;1845), created by Charles Knight, under the auspices of the <i>Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge</i>. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.10cho 175 197 23 Chapter 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 10. From adverts to letters to the editor</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">External voicing in early sports match announcements</Subtitle> 1 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 01 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 &#8211; upcoming cricket and football matches &#8211; 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.11nev 199 216 18 Chapter 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 11. The public identity of Jack the Ripper in late nineteenth-century British newspapers</TitleText> 1 A01 Minna Nevala Nevala, Minna Minna Nevala University of Helsinki 20 criminals 20 evaluation 20 historical sociopragmatics 20 news language 20 nineteenth-century Britain 20 Referential terms 01 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.p3 Section header 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part III. New practices</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ahs.6.12ste 219 240 22 Chapter 16 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 12. Narrative vs. “objective” style</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Notes on the style of news (agency) reports on violence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century</Subtitle> 1 A01 Maija Stenvall Stenvall, Maija Maija Stenvall Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English, University of Helsinki 20 Affect 20 Appraisal 20 Functional grammar 20 narrative 20 news agencies 20 newspapers 20 objective style 20 reporter voice 20 responsibility 20 violence 01 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, &#8220;objective&#8221; 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 &#8220;modern&#8221; style adopted in the AP Siedlce narrative in 1906. The first evidence of the intentionally &#8220;objective&#8221; writing style I found in Reuters telegrams on the Siedlce pogrom in 1906. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.13rya 241 265 25 Chapter 17 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 13. Astride two worlds</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Emergence of Italian-American identity in the Massachusetts immigrant press</Subtitle> 1 A01 Michael J. Ryan Ryan, Michael J. Michael J. Ryan University of Northern Colorado 20 assimilation 20 code switching 20 cultural preservation 20 English 20 identity construction 20 immigration 20 Italian 20 news discourse 01 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&#8217;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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.14erm 267 293 27 Chapter 18 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 14. Newspaper funnies at the dawn of modernity</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Multimodal humour in early American comic strips</Subtitle> 1 A01 Isabel Ermida Ermida, Isabel Isabel Ermida University of Minho 20 Comics 20 discourse 20 humour 20 multimodality 20 press 20 semantic 20 semiotic 01 This article offers a model for the analysis of comics, focusing on a classic of American Sunday newspapers: Outcault&#8217;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 (&#8220;modes&#8221;), sociological elements (&#8220;functions&#8221;) and semantic elements (&#8220;mechanisms&#8221;). 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.index 295 301 7 Miscellaneous 19 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20170829 2017 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027200853 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 21 01 00 99.00 EUR R 01 00 83.00 GBP Z 01 gen 00 149.00 USD S 164017723 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code AHS 6 Hb 15 9789027200853 13 2017011548 BB 01 AHS 02 2214-1057 Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse</TitleText> 01 ahs.6 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/ahs.6 1 B01 Minna Palander-Collin Palander-Collin, Minna Minna Palander-Collin University of Helsinki 2 B01 Maura Ratia Ratia, Maura Maura Ratia University of Helsinki 3 B01 Irma Taavitsainen Taavitsainen, Irma Irma Taavitsainen University of Helsinki 01 eng 308 vii 301 LAN009030 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme COMM.CGEN Communication Studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.ENG English linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.GERM Germanic linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.HL Historical linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 06 01 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. 05 [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. Erik Smitterberg, Uppsala University, in Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 2019 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/ahs.6.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027200853.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027200853.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/ahs.6.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/ahs.6.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/ahs.6.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/ahs.6.hb.png 10 01 JB code ahs.6.pre 1 2 2 Miscellaneous 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Preface</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ahs.6.01rat 3 12 10 Chapter 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 1. English news discourse from newsbooks to new media</TitleText> 1 A01 Maura Ratia Ratia, Maura Maura Ratia University of Helsinki 2 A01 Minna Palander-Collin Palander-Collin, Minna Minna Palander-Collin University of Helsinki 3 A01 Irma Taavitsainen Taavitsainen, Irma Irma Taavitsainen University of Helsinki 20 corpus analysis 20 diachrony 20 English news discourse 20 interdisciplinarity 20 metatextual analysis 20 multimodality 20 sociohistorical developments 01 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.p1 Section header 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part I. Changing or maintaining conventions?</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ahs.6.02bos 15 37 23 Chapter 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 2. Of hopes and plans</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Newsmakers’ metadiscourse at the dawn of the newspaper age</Subtitle> 1 A01 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&#8217; 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.03cec 39 60 22 Chapter 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 3. Religious lexis and political ideology in English Civil War newsbooks</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A corpus-based analysis of <i>Mercurius Aulicus</i> and <i>Mercurius Britanicus</i></Subtitle> 1 A01 Elisabetta Cecconi Cecconi, Elisabetta Elisabetta Cecconi University of Florence 20 adversarial journalism 20 collocational behaviour 20 editors 20 English Civil War newsbooks 20 Parliamentarian 20 political ideology 20 propaganda 20 readership 20 religious words 20 Royalist 01 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.04bro 61 79 19 Chapter 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 4. Contemporary observations on the attention value and selling power of English print advertisements (1700–1760)</TitleText> 1 A01 Nicholas Brownlees Brownlees, Nicholas Nicholas Brownlees University of Florence 20 advertisements 20 contemporary observations 20 eighteenth-century English press 20 Newcastle Courant 01 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&#8217; 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>. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.05skl 81 96 16 Chapter 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 5. A modest proposal in <i>The Gentleman’s Magazine</i></TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A peculiar eighteenth-century advertisement</Subtitle> 1 A01 Howard Sklar Sklar, Howard Howard Sklar University of Helsinki 2 A01 Irma Taavitsainen Taavitsainen, Irma Irma Taavitsainen University of Helsinki 20 advertisement 20 context 20 genre 20 irony 20 period style 20 polite society 20 pragmatic analysis 20 rhetorical analysis 20 satire 01 <i>The Gentleman&#8217;s Magazine</i> (GM, 1732&#8211;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 &#8220;remedy against life&#8221; suitable to &#8220;any <i>nobleman, gentleman</i>, or other man of <i>wit, humour</i>, and <i>pleasure</i>&#8221;. 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.06wan 97 116 20 Chapter 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 6. Lexical bundles in news discourse 1784–1983</TitleText> 1 A01 Ying Wang Wang, Ying Ying Wang Uppsala University 20 corpus linguistics 20 diachronic development 20 four-word lexical bundles 20 news discourse 01 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.p2 Section header 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part II. Widening audiences</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ahs.6.07con 119 136 18 Chapter 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 7. British popular newspaper traditions</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">From the nineteenth century to the first tabloid</Subtitle> 1 A01 Martin Conboy Conboy, Martin Martin Conboy University of Sheffield 20 British 20 Daily Mirror 20 newspapers 20 popular 20 radical rhetoric 20 Sunday 20 tabloid 01 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 &#8220;tabloid&#8221; 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.08cla 137 155 19 Chapter 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 8. The Poor Man’s Guardian</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The linguistic construction of social groups and their relations</Subtitle> 1 A01 Claudia Claridge Claridge, Claudia Claudia Claridge University of Augsburg 20 deixis 20 delegitimisation 20 group construction 20 metaphor 20 pronoun 20 punctuation 20 quotation 20 rhetoric 20 stylistics 01 Radical papers like <i>The Poor Man&#8217;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 &#8220;capitalists&#8221; 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.09sou 157 173 17 Chapter 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 9. Diffusing political knowledge in illustrated magazines</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A comparison between the Portuguese <i>O Panorama</i> and the British <i>The Penny Magazine</i> in 1837–1844</Subtitle> 1 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 20 Illustrated periodicals 20 multimodality 20 O Panorama 20 The Penny Magazine 01 It is our purpose to compare two illustrated periodicals (a Portuguese and a British one) during the 1837&#8211;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&#8211;1868) diffused cultural matters in general. It was created by the <i>Sociedade Propagadora dos Conhecimentos &#218;teis</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&#8211;1845), created by Charles Knight, under the auspices of the <i>Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge</i>. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.10cho 175 197 23 Chapter 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 10. From adverts to letters to the editor</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">External voicing in early sports match announcements</Subtitle> 1 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 01 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 &#8211; upcoming cricket and football matches &#8211; 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.11nev 199 216 18 Chapter 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 11. The public identity of Jack the Ripper in late nineteenth-century British newspapers</TitleText> 1 A01 Minna Nevala Nevala, Minna Minna Nevala University of Helsinki 20 criminals 20 evaluation 20 historical sociopragmatics 20 news language 20 nineteenth-century Britain 20 Referential terms 01 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.p3 Section header 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part III. New practices</TitleText> 10 01 JB code ahs.6.12ste 219 240 22 Chapter 16 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 12. Narrative vs. “objective” style</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Notes on the style of news (agency) reports on violence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century</Subtitle> 1 A01 Maija Stenvall Stenvall, Maija Maija Stenvall Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English, University of Helsinki 20 Affect 20 Appraisal 20 Functional grammar 20 narrative 20 news agencies 20 newspapers 20 objective style 20 reporter voice 20 responsibility 20 violence 01 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, &#8220;objective&#8221; 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 &#8220;modern&#8221; style adopted in the AP Siedlce narrative in 1906. The first evidence of the intentionally &#8220;objective&#8221; writing style I found in Reuters telegrams on the Siedlce pogrom in 1906. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.13rya 241 265 25 Chapter 17 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 13. Astride two worlds</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Emergence of Italian-American identity in the Massachusetts immigrant press</Subtitle> 1 A01 Michael J. Ryan Ryan, Michael J. Michael J. Ryan University of Northern Colorado 20 assimilation 20 code switching 20 cultural preservation 20 English 20 identity construction 20 immigration 20 Italian 20 news discourse 01 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&#8217;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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.14erm 267 293 27 Chapter 18 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 14. Newspaper funnies at the dawn of modernity</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Multimodal humour in early American comic strips</Subtitle> 1 A01 Isabel Ermida Ermida, Isabel Isabel Ermida University of Minho 20 Comics 20 discourse 20 humour 20 multimodality 20 press 20 semantic 20 semiotic 01 This article offers a model for the analysis of comics, focusing on a classic of American Sunday newspapers: Outcault&#8217;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 (&#8220;modes&#8221;), sociological elements (&#8220;functions&#8221;) and semantic elements (&#8220;mechanisms&#8221;). 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. 10 01 JB code ahs.6.index 295 301 7 Miscellaneous 19 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20170829 2017 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 08 640 gr 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 01 WORLD US CA MX 21 16 26 01 02 JB 1 00 99.00 EUR R 02 02 JB 1 00 104.94 EUR R 01 JB 10 bebc +44 1202 712 934 +44 1202 712 913 sales@bebc.co.uk 03 GB 21 26 02 02 JB 1 00 83.00 GBP Z 01 JB 2 John Benjamins North America +1 800 562-5666 +1 703 661-1501 benjamins@presswarehouse.com 01 https://benjamins.com 01 US CA MX 21 1 26 01 gen 02 JB 1 00 149.00 USD