News with an Attitude
Ideological perspectives in the historical press
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This volume extends research on ideology in the news into the historical sphere, spanning discourse from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. The chapters investigate the ideological representation and assessment of political events across three continents, such as uprisings, independence, and genocide, but also of pervasive socio-cultural aspects like gender and language. For this, they rely on a wide range of sources, from handwritten news letters via general daily papers to specialized magazines, and from classical editorial content to letters published in newspapers. The geographical and linguistic focus of the texts investigated comprises British, American, Italian, German, and Polish discourse. The articles use both qualitative and quantitative corpus-based methodology, such as keyword or collocational analysis. The book is of interest for scholars in (historical) linguistics, history, and journalism studies.
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 105] Expected April 2025. vii, 248 pp. + index
Publishing status: In production
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Preface | pp. vii–viii
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Chapter 1. IntroductionClaudia Claridge | pp. 1–9
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Section 1. Focus on political contexts
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Chapter 2. British ideologies in the (re)-shaping of the American identity: A corpus-based analysis of the possessive our in American newspapers (1764–1783)Elisabetta Cecconi | pp. 12–32
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Chapter 3. Representing Ireland and the Irish in the 17th- and 18th-century English pressClaudia Claridge | pp. 33–55
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Chapter 4. Inducing sympathies and antipathies: A corpus-assisted analysis of letters from the 1857–1858 Indian uprisings in the pressChristina Samson | pp. 56–81
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Chapter 5. Transformations and the dynamics of memory: Gladstone and the Phoenix Park MurdersHelen Baker and Tony McEnery | pp. 82–107
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Chapter 6. Revolutionary news: Reporting civil unrest in 1640s London and NaplesBrendan Dooley and Davide Boerio | pp. 108–132
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Chapter 7. Language and ideology: The representation of the Armenian question in letters to the editor of The Times (1914–1926)Isabella Martini | pp. 133–154
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Section 2. Focus on socio-cultural contexts: Gender and language
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Chapter 8. Female-male relations in letters to the editor in The Orphan Reviv'd: or, Powell’s Weekly Journal (1719–1720)Nicholas Brownlees | pp. 156–176
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Chapter 9. “Girls of the period”: Debating gender ideologies in the British feminist press (1894–1914)Martina Guzzetti | pp. 177–199
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Chapter 10. Feminatives in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals in partitioned PolandMatylda Włodarczyk | pp. 200–224
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Chapter 11. Language ideologies in the 18th century: The public discussion of language in the Spectators from the English-, Italian- and German-speaking areasGiulia Mantovani | pp. 225–248
Subjects
Communication Studies
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics