Elisabetta Cecconi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elisabetta Cecconi plays a role.
2020 Chapter 6. Paratext and ideology in 17th-century news genres: A comparative discourse analysis of paratextual elements in news broadside ballads and occasional news pamphlets The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English, Peikola, Matti and Birte Bös (eds.), pp. 137–162 | Chapter
This contribution examines the way in which ideology and the (changing) socio-cultural news values of the time can be mapped onto the news presentation strategies adopted in the paratext of 17th-century news broadside ballads and occasional news pamphlets. Based on Genette’s (1997) notion of… read more
2017 Chapter 3. Religious lexis and political ideology in English Civil War newsbooks: A corpus-based analysis of Mercurius Aulicus and Mercurius Britanicus Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse, Palander-Collin, Minna, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 39–60 | Chapter
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 Mercurius Aulicus and the parliamentarian Mercurius Britanicus. Given the major role played by religion… read more
2015 Comparing discourse construction in 17th-century news genres: A case study of murder reports Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse, Bös, Birte and Lucia Kornexl (eds.), pp. 163–190 | Article
In this paper I shall examine aspects of discourse construction in 17th-century
crime reports. To this purpose I shall select four news genres which circulated
in the 17th-century news market, reaching a heterogeneous cross-section of
society: news broadside ballads, occasional news pamphlets,… read more
2009 Comparing seventeenth-century news broadsides and occasional news pamphlets: Interrelatedness in news reporting Early Modern English News Discourse: Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse, Jucker, Andreas H. (ed.), pp. 137–157 | Article