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1 online resource (282 pages) |
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Corpus and Discourse |
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Corpus and Discourse
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Historical Corpus Stylistics and Early News Media; 1 The Historical Stylistic Perspective; 1.1 Historical Stylistics and Stylistic Foregrounding; 1.2 Historical Stylistics and other Approaches; 2 Genre-Specific Considerations; 2.1 The Historical Dimension; 2.2 The Stylistic Dimension; 2.3 The Physical Dimension; 3 Corpus-Linguistic Considerations; 3.1 Time Parameters; 3.2 Corpus Dimensions; 3.3 Corpus Sources; 3.4 Usefulness and Limitations; 4 Conclusion; Notes; Part I: Socio-Stylistic Dimensions |
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2 Media Performance and Organization Profiles1 Performance Variables; 2 Media Organization Profiles; 2.1 High-Performance Profiles; 2.2 Medium-Performance Profiles; 2.3 Low-Performance Profiles; 3 Conclusion; Notes; 3 Media Variation and Stylistic Change; 1 Stylistic Variables; 2 Stylistic Profiles; 2.1 Conservative Profiles; 2.2 Conservative-Popular Profiles; 2.3 Quality Profiles; 2.4 Popular Profiles; 2.5 Quality-Popular Hybrids; 2.6 Balanced Profiles; 3 Conclusion; Notes; 4 Performance and Style: A Socio-Stylistic Profile; 1 Towards Market Diversification; 2 Concluding Remarks |
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Part II: Technologically Facilitated Innovation5 Visual Foregrounding in Eighteenth-Century Headlines; 1 Corpus Details; 1.1 Graphic Types; 1.1.1 Distribution of Graphic Types; 2 Headline Functions; 2.1 Attributive Headlines; 2.2 Thematic Headlines; 2.3 Performative Headlines; 2.4 Structural Headlines; 3 Correlation of Graphic and Functional Patterns; 4 Late Eighteenth-Century Headlines; 5 Conclusion; Notes; 6 Syntactic Foregrounding in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century News Discourse; 1 Corpus and Method; 2 Verbal Headlines; 3 Modes of Syntactic Foregrounding; 4 Stylistic Dimensions |
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4.1 Unstressed Forms4.2 Topicalized Forms; 4.3 Dislocated Forms; 4.4 Complex Forms; 5 Outlook to the Nineteenth Century; 6 Conclusion; Notes; Part III: Situational Aspects: News Context and Early Media Change; 7 Macrotextual Foregrounding Strategies in Eighteenth-Century News Discourse; 1 Event Focusing; 2 Textual Emphasis; 2.1 Early Forms of Textual Emphasis; 2.2 First Phase of Consolidation; 2.3 Towards Event-Related Thematic Structures; 3 Conclusion; Note; 8 Microtextual Foregrounding: Comment and News Context; 1 Modality in Early News Discourse; 2 Stylistic Realizations of Modality |
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3 Distributional Patterns4 Contextual Domains; 5 Modality Patterns; 5.1 War; 5.2 Politics; 5.3 Social Life; 5.4 Commerce & Trade; 5.5 Entertainment & Features; 5.6 Accidents & Disasters; 5.7 Crimes; 5.8 Announcements; 6 Conclusion; Notes; Conclusion; References; List of Abbreviations; Appendices I-III; Appendix I; Appendix II; Appendix III; Index |
| Summary |
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 aca |
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Print version record |
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English language -- Style -- History
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Newspapers -- Language -- History
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Corpora (Linguistics)
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Corpora (Linguistics)
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English language -- Style
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Newspapers -- Language
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History
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Electronic book
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