The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English
Edited by Matti Peikola and Birte Bös
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 317] 2020. vii, 313 pp.
Birte Bös
List of John Benjamins publications for which Birte Bös plays a role.
Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Norms and Conventions in the History of English
Edited by Birte Bös and Claudia Claridge
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 347] 2019. v, 215 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax
Edited by Claudia Claridge and Birte Bös
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 346] 2019. vi, 312 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline: Personal - group - collective
Edited by Birte Bös, Sonja Kleinke, Sandra Mollin and Nuria Hernández
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 78] 2018. vii, 271 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse
Edited by Birte Bös and Lucia Kornexl
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 5] 2015. xiv, 254 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
2024 Chapter 5. Self- and other-positioning in eighteenth‑century newspapers: A case study of a failed joint venture Self- and Other-Reference in Social Contexts: From global to local discourses, Nevala, Minna and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 89–113 | Chapter
This study takes a sociopragmatic perspective on processes of self- and other-positioning in eighteenth-century newspapers. A case study of the adversarial separation of Edward Topham and John Bell, the makers of the highly successful newspaper The World, will reveal the complexities of… read more
2024 Women’s voices in the public sphere: Processes of (discursive) democratisation in London suffrage newspapers Corpus-Pragmatic Studies of Democratization in Public Discourses: New perspectives, methods and materials, Hiltunen, Turo, Turo Vartiainen and Jenni Räikkönen (eds.), pp. 302–328 | Article
As alternative media, suffrage periodicals played an important role in women’s fight for universal suffrage, which marked a milestone on the road to democracy. Opening up a space for women in public discourse, these papers shaped and were shaped by processes of democratisation. This study… read more
2024 Code accommodation as a measure of inclusion for bilingual people living with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type: A case study Pragmatics of Active Social Inclusion, Matsumoto, Yoshiko and Heidi E. Hamilton (eds.), pp. 49–66 | Article
This case study explores the dynamics of code choices in interactions involving bilingual people living with dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type (DAT) and their primary care partners, focusing on two narrative interviews held in private settings. Drawing on a combination of Communication… read more
2020 Chapter 1. Framing framing: The multifaceted phenomena of paratext, metadiscourse and framing The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English, Peikola, Matti and Birte Bös (eds.), pp. 3–32 | Chapter
2019 Linguistic norms and conventions: Past and present Norms and Conventions in the History of English, Bös, Birte and Claudia Claridge (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Chapter
2019 Introduction Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax, Claridge, Claudia and Birte Bös (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
2018 Indeterminate us and them : The complexities of referentiality, identity and group construction in a public online discussion The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline: Personal - group - collective, Bös, Birte, Sonja Kleinke, Sandra Mollin and Nuria Hernández (eds.), pp. 153–176 | Chapter
This paper reinvestigates the polarizing effects of indeterminate first- and third-person plural pronouns and determiners (i.e. the we-set and the they-set) from a Digital Discourse perspective. Combining Critical Discourse Analysis and a cognitive-linguistic approach, it tackles the… read more
2018 Introduction: Identity construction in complex discourse contexts The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline: Personal - group - collective, Bös, Birte, Sonja Kleinke, Sandra Mollin and Nuria Hernández (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Chapter
2017 Chapter 2. Of hopes and plans: Newsmakers’ metadiscourse at the dawn of the newspaper age Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse, Palander-Collin, Minna, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 15–37 | Chapter
This study investigates a specialised corpus of prefatory metadiscourse, i.e. newsmakers’ 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… read more
2015 Conceptualisations, sources and agents of news: Key terms as signposts of changing journalistic practices Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse, Bös, Birte and Lucia Kornexl (eds.), pp. 23–52 | Article
This paper investigates six sets of key terms relating to the conceptualisation,
transmission and production, and the agents of news. Based on an analysis of
the Rostock Newspaper Corpus (RNC), which spans three centuries of news writing,
the quantitative and qualitative developments of these… read more
2015 Introduction Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse, Bös, Birte and Lucia Kornexl (eds.), pp. ix–xiv | Article
2015 Intergroup rudeness and the metapragmatics of its negotiation in online discussion fora Relational work in Facebook and discussion boards/fora, Locher, Miriam A., Brook Bolander and Nicole Höhn (eds.), pp. 47–71 | Article
This study investigates the communicative practices in English and German online discussion fora as exemplified by two thematically related sample threads. Combining first- and second-order approaches to (im-)politeness, the paper focuses on the question of how participants use intergroup rudeness… read more
2011 Review of Peikola, Skaffari & Tanskanen (2009): Instructional Writing in English: Studies in Honour of Risto Hiltunen Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 300–305 | Review
2009 “Place yer bets” and “Let us hope”: Imperatives and their pragmatic functions in news reports Early Modern English News Discourse: Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse, Jucker, Andreas H. (ed.), pp. 115–133 | Article