CHINED Publications
News Discourse in Early Modern Britain
Nicholas Brownlees (ed.)
Bern: Peter Lang, 2006
CONTENTS
Nicholas Brownlees: Introduction
SERIAL PUBLICATIONS
Nicholas Brownlees: Polemic and propaganda in Civil War news discourse
Maurizio Gotti: Disseminating Early Modern science: Specialized news discourse in The Philosophical Transactions
Ellen Valle: Reporting the doings of the curious: Authors and editors in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Udo Fries / Hans Martin Lehmann: The style of 18th-century English newspapers: Lexical diversity
Andreas H. Jucker: “but ’tis believed that …”: Speech and thought presentation in Early English newspapers
Mirella Billi: Ladies’ fashion magazines: Social life and consumerism in eighteenth-century England
Valerie Wainwright: “To Smite Friendly and Reprove”: The Seven Years War and the Critical Review
Susan Kermas: From herbal to advert
Laura Wright: Street addresses and directions in mid-eighteenth century London newspaper advertisements
NON-SERIAL PUBLICATIONS
Silvia Pireddu: News language in Elizabethan prose dedications and prefaces
Marina Dossena: Forms of argumentation and verbal aggression in the Darien pamphlets
Anne M. McKim: Adapting news and making history: Daniel Defoe and the 1707 Union
Alessandra Levorato: Wisdom, moderation and propaganda in the Act of Union Debate of 1801
Early Modern English News Discourse: Newspapers, Pamphlets and Scientific News Discourse
Andreas H. Jucker (ed.)
Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009
CONTENTS
Andreas H. Jucker: Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse in Early Modern Britain
NEWSPAPERS
Udo Fries: Crime and punishment
Laura Wright: Reading late eighteenth-century Want Ads
Nicholas Brownlees: “Alwayes in te Orbe of honest Mirth, and next to Truth”: Proto-infotainment in the Welch Mercury
Thomas Kohnen: Religious language in early English newspapers?
Claudia Claridge: “As silly as an Irish Teague”: Comparisons in early English news discourse
Birte Bös: “Place yer bets” and “Let us hope”: Imperatives and their pragmatic functions in news reports
PAMPHLETS
Elisabetta Cecconi: Comparing seventeenth-century news broadsides and occasional news pamphlets: Interrelatedness in news reporting
Alessandra Levorato: “From you, my Lord, professions are but words – they are so much bait for fools to catch at”: Impoliteness strategies in the 1797–1800 Act of Union pamphlet debate
SCIENTIFIC NEWS DISCOURSE
Irma Taavitsainen: “Joyful News out of the Newfound World”: Medical and scientific news reports in Early Modern England
Lilo Moessner: News filtering processes in the Philosophical Transactions
Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse
Birte Bös and Lucia Kornexl (eds.)
Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2015
CONTENTS
Birte Bös and Lucia Kornexl: Introduction
THE FORMATION OF PUBLIC NEWS DISCOURSE AND METADISCURSIVE TERMINOLOGY
Nicholas Brownlees: “We have in some former bookes told you”: The Significance of metatext in 17th-century News
Birte Bös: Conceptualisations, Sources and agents of news: Key terms as signposts of changing journalistic practices
CHANGING MODES OF REFERENCE AND SHIFTS IN AUDIENCE ORIENTATION
Claudia Claridge: News in space and time
Minna Palander-Collin: Changing genre conventions and socio-cultural change: Person-mention in 19th-century English advertisements
Sarah Borde: Late Modern English death notices: Transformations of a traditional lay audiences
Irma Taavitsainen: Medical news in England 1665–1800 in journals for professional and lay audiences
TRANSGRESSING BOUNDARIES AND SHIFTING STYLES
Elisabetta Cecconi: Comparing discourse construction in 17th-century news genres: A case study of murder reports
Alexander Haselow: Speech-like syntax in written texts: Changing syntactic conventions in news discourse
Isabel Ermida: Playing upon news genre conventions: The case of Mark Twain’s news satire
Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse
Minna Palander-Collin, Maura Ratia, Irma Taavitsainen (eds.)
Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2017
CONTENTS
Maura Ratia, Minna Palander-Collin and Irma Taavitsainen: English news discourse from newsbooks to new media
PART I. CHANGING OR MAINTAINING CONVENTIONS?
Birte Bös: Of hopes and plans: Newsmakers’ metadiscourse at the dawn of the newspaper age
Elisabetta Cecconi: Religious lexis and political ideology in English Civil War newsbooks: A corpus-based analysis of Mercurius Aulicus and Mercurius Britanicus
Nicholas Brownlees: Contemporary observations on the attention value and selling power of English print advertisements (1700–1760)
Howard Sklar and Irma Taavitsainen: A modest proposal in The Gentleman’s Magazine : A peculiar eighteenth-century advertisement
Ying Wang: Lexical bundles in news discourse 1784–1983
PART II. WIDENING AUDIENCES
Martin Conboy: British popular newspaper traditions: From the nineteenth century to the first tabloid
Claudia Claridge: The Poor Man’s Guardian: The linguistic construction of social groups and their relations
Jorge Pedro Sousa, Elsa Simões Lucas Freitas and Sandra Gonçalves Tuna: Diffusing political knowledge in illustrated magazines: A comparison between the Portuguese O Panorama and the British The Penny Magazine in 1837–1844
Jan Chovanec: From adverts to letters to the editor: External voicing in early sports match announcements
Minna Nevala: The public identity of Jack the Ripper in late nineteenth-century British newspapers
PART III. NEW PRACTICES
Maija Stenvall: Narrative vs. “objective” style: Notes on the style of news (agency) reports on violence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
John M. Ryan: Astride two worlds: Emergence of Italian-American identity in the Massachusetts immigrant press
Isabel Ermida: Newspaper funnies at the dawn of modernity: Multimodal humour in early American comic strips
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
CONTENTS
Preface: Nicholas Brownlees, Elsa Simões Lucas Freitas, Sandra Gonçalves Tuna, Jorge Pedro Sousa
Udo Fries: The North China Herald: News reports between Shanghai and London (1850–1900).
Nicholas Brownlees: From The London Gazette to the Gazette De Londres: An analysis of the French edition of the seventeenth-century English newspaper
Elisabetta Cecconi: Shaping reality in English Civil War adversarial news discourse: A corpus-based lexical study of royalist and parliamentarian newsbooks and broadsides.
Carmen Espejo, Francisco Baena, Carlota Fernández Travieso: Emerging journalistic discourse in Spain: A proposal for Xml-Tei encoding of Early Modern gazettes.
Elsa Simões Lucas Freitas: Journalism in the works of P.G. Wodehouse and Dorothy L. Sayers: Newspaper-men, sleuths and con-artists
Elsa Simões Lucas Freitas and Sandra Gonçalves Tuna: A study in multimodality: Captions, text and images in the Portuguese popular newspaper António Maria and in the British Punch
Jorge Pedro Sousa and Helena Lima: Illustrated press and British propaganda in Portugal and Brazil: O Espelho
Maija Stenvall: Unnamed sources as rhetorical constructs in news agency reports: A diachronic view
The Role of Context in the Production and Reception of Historical News Discourse
Nicholas Brownlees (ed.)
Bern: Peter Lang, 2021
CONTENTS
Nicholas Brownlees: Introduction
BRITISH NEWS CONTEXTS
Elisabetta Cecconi: Propaganda discourse in context: Pro and anti-Strafford pamphlets on the eve of the English Civil War
Carla Suhr: False news in the English press in the 1680s
Irma Taavitsainen: Scientific book reviews in the seventeenth century: Early stages of the genre
Hye-Joon Yoon: News as history: The context of Edmund Burke’s historical articles in The Annual Register (1758–1764) and their rhetoric of contextualisation
Claudia Claridge: Murder in the press: Representations of Old Bailey murder trials in newspapers
Turo Vartiainen, Turo Hiltunen and Minna Palander-Collin: Linguistic contexts of social change: tracing the decline of the master-servant institution in three corpora
Birte Bös: Contextualising British suffrage newspapers
INTERNATIONAL NEWS CONTEXTS
Javier Díaz-Noci: From Italy to Spain: Style and narration in the first semi-periodical newspaper in Spanish
Roberta Facchinetti: Socio-political context and the press in early 20th century China: A case study
Maija Stenvall: “Fears are entertained”: Constructing ‘Fear’ in news agency reports in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
Sandra Tuna, Elsa Simões and Jorge Pedro Sousa: ‘Never let truth get in the way of a good story’: The journalistic style of Reinaldo Ferreira (Reporter X) and William Randolph Hearst
ADVERTISING CONTEXTS
Matylda Włodarczyk: “Whoever will discover where he lurks”: Presenting addressees and advertisers in runaway slave classifieds
Viola Wiegand: Surveillance contexts in 19th-century British mental healthcare: A study of adverts in The Times
Davide Mazzi: “If you want Ireland to prosper…”: A discourse-analytic study of Irishness in Irish newspaper advertising of the 1930s
Elsa Simões: Advertising and newspapers in context: Dorothy L. Sayers’s Murder Must Advertise (1933)