UPCOMING CONFERENCE: CHINED IX
The next CHINED conference, CHINED IX, is due to be held at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, in late spring/ early summer 2024.
The conference organiser, Prof. Matylda Włodarczyk, will publish a CfP in early summer 2023.
What is CHINED
CHINED News takes its name from the series of conferences devoted to the study of historical news discourse.
The first Conference on Historical News Discourse (CHINED I) was held in Florence, Italy on 2–3 September 2004. The aim of the conference, as with successive conferences, was to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of research in the field of news discourse written in English. Since 2004 there have been 7 other CHINED conferences. The next CHINED conference (CHINED IX) will be held in Poznan in late spring/ early summer 2024.
CHINED conferences focus on the language of both print and manuscript news from the early modern period up until the first decades of the twentieth century. The print news not only includes the hard news of pamphlets and newspapers but also all the other sub-genres making up the world of the press: editorials, letters to the editor, polemic, advertising, review journalism, to name just a few.
What Does CHINED Do?
CHINED conferences have provided a forum for a wide range of methodological approaches such as appraisal theory, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, frame theory, historical pragmatics, sociolinguistics and translation.
These approaches have been employed to study news discourse in relation to diachronic linguistic change, genre conventions, ideology and more generally the role of context in the production and reception of news.
Six CHINED-related volumes have been published. A seventh volume based on CHINED VIII in Augsburg, 2022, will be published in 2023.The aim of our CHINED News website is to provide information on CHINED conferences and other information regarding the language of historical news.
We encourage all those interested in enriching the CHINED News website with information about events and recent research to submit the news on the above Contact Link.CHINED was founded by Nicholas Brownlees and the CHINED Board consists of Nicholas Brownlees, Birte Bös and Udo Fries.
Why is CHINED Important?
CHINED conferences are unique in that they focus specifically on historical news discourse.
Attracting an international range of academics, the two-day events provide a relaxed and enjoyable forum for the latest research papers and scholarship dealing with the language of early and late modern news. The follow-up volumes containing selected papers from the conferences are an important resource for all researchers working in this new and exciting area of studies.
CHINED Conferences have been held in Florence (CHINED I, 2004), Zurich (CHINED II, 2007),Rostock (CHINED III, 2012), Helsinki (CHINED IV, 2014), Porto (CHINED V, 2015), Sheffield (CHINED VI, 2017), Barcelona (CHINED VII, 2019) and Augsburg (CHINED VIII, 2022).
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Recent Publications
Here are a list of CHINED recent publications
News Discourse in Early Modern Britain
Nicholas Brownlees (ed.) Bern: Peter Lang, 2006
Early Modern English News Discourse: Newspapers, Pamphlets and Scientific News Discourse
Andreas H. Jucker (ed.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009
Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse
Birte Bös and Lucia Kornexl (eds.) Benjamins: Amsterdam, 2015
Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse
Minna Palander-Collin, Maura Ratia, Irma Taavitsainen (eds.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2017
Shaping Realities in News Reporting: From Early Modern English to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Nicholas Brownlees, Elsa Simões Lucas Freitas, Sandra Gonçalves Tuna, Jorge Pedro Sousa (eds) Lisboa: Editora Media XXI, 2018
The Role of Context in the Production and Reception of Historical News Discourse
Nicholas Brownlees (ed.) Bern: Peter Lang, 2021