Historical Corpus Stylistics

Media, Technology and Change

AvPatrick Studer,Michaela Mahlberg

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

Using data from a newspaper corpus, this book offers the first empirical study into the development of style in early mass media. The book analyses how news discourse was shaped over time by external factors, such as the historical context, news production, technological innovation and current affairs, and as such both conformed to and deviated from generic conventions. In this analysis, media style appears as a dynamic concept which is highly sensitive to innovative approaches towards making news not only informative but also entertaining to read.This cutting edge survey will be of interest to academics researching corpus linguistics, media discourse and stylistics.The editorial board includes: Frantisek Cermak (Prague), Susan Conrad (Portland), Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster), Elena Tognini-Bonelli (Lecce and TWC), Ruth Wodak (Lancaster and Vienna), and, Feng Zhiwei (Beijing)."The Corpus and Discourse" series consists of two strands. The first, "Research in Corpus and Discourse", features innovative contributions to various aspects of corpus linguistics and a wide range of applications, from language technology via the teaching of a second language to a history of mentalities.The second strand, "Studies in Corpus and Discourse", is comprised of key texts bridging the gap between social studies and linguistics. Although equally academically rigorous, this strand will be aimed at a wider audience of academics and postgraduate students working in both disciplines.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-03-16
Mått:156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:300 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Corpus and Discourse
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780826494306

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Mer om författaren

Patrick Studer is a Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Applied Sciences in Zurich and a Researcher in Linguistics at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

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‘Patrick Studer is one of the world's leading experts in early English newspapers. He has an intimate and detailed knowledge of both their content matters and their stylistic peculiarities. In this book he provides a rich and detailed introduction to these newspapers within their historical and socio-cultural context and he develops a set of sophisticated corpus-stylistic tools necessary for their analysis. There is a lot to learn not only about newspapers in eighteenth-century England but also about the English language at the turning point from Early Modern English to Present-day English.' Andreas H. Jucker, Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Historical Corpus Stylistics and Early News Media. I: Socio-Stylistic Dimensions; 2. Media Performance and Organization Profiles; 3. Media Variation and Stylistic Change; 4. Performance and Style: A Socio-Stylistic Profile; II: Technologically Facilitated Innovation; 5. Visual Foregrounding in Early Eighteenth-Century Headlines; 6. Syntactic Foregrounding in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century News Discourse; III: Situational Aspects: News Context and Early Media Change; 7.Macrotextual Foregrounding Strategies in Eighteenth-Century News Discourse; 8.Microtextual Foregrounding Strategies: Comment and News; Context; Conclusion; References; Appendices I-III; Index.