Elisabetta Cecconi

List of John Benjamins publications for which Elisabetta Cecconi plays a role.

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
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
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