Popular News Discourse: American and British newspapers 1833-1988
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 15:2 (2014)
[Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 15:2] 2014. v, 172 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Exploring the language of the popular in American and British newspapers 1833–1988: IntroductionMartin Conboy | pp. 159–164 -
The emergence of the news paradigm in the English provincial press: A case study of the Midland Daily TelegraphRachel Matthews | pp. 165–186
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“Half a loaf is better than none”: The framing of political and national identity in Welsh border newspapers in the aftermath of the Mold Riots, 1869Simon Gwyn Roberts | pp. 187–206
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“Dirt, death and disease”: Newspaper discourses on public health in the construction of the modern British cityCarole O’Reilly | pp. 207–227
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“…but there were no broken legs”: The emerging genre of football match reports in The Times in the 1860sJan Chovanec | pp. 228–254
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Ideological closure in newspaper political language during the U.S. 1872 election campaignDafnah Strauss | pp. 255–291
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The emergence of “jingo” and “jingoism” as political terms in public debate in Great Britain (1878–1880)Elliot King | pp. 292–313
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Popular newspaper discourse: The case of UK TV criticism from the 1950s to the 1980sPaul Rixon | pp. 314–330
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Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009010 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative