Historical Corpus Stylistics

Media, Technology and Change

AvPatrick Studer

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This book analyzes 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. Using data from a newspaper corpus, it offers the first empirical study into the development of style in early mass media. 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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2008-03-16
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781441131690
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation
Serie:Corpus and Discourse

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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

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Acknowledgements \ List of Abbreviations \ Introduction \ Part I: Socio-Stylistic Dimensions \ 1. Historical Corpus Stylistics and Early News Media \ 2. Media Performance and Organization Profiles \ 3. Media Variation and Stylistic Change \ 4. Performance and Style: A Socio-Stylistic Profile \ Part II: Technologically Facilitated Innovation \ 5. Visual Foregrounding in Early Eighteenth-Century Headlines \ 6. Syntactic Foregrounding in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century News Discourse \ Part 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