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1 online resource |
| Series |
Advances in historical sociolinguistics (AHS), 2214-1057 ; volume 6 |
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Advances in historical sociolinguistics ; v. 6.
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| Contents |
Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; English news discourse from newsbooks to new media; 1. Introduction; 2. News discourse and sociocultural developments in a long diachrony; 3. Data in studies on historical news discourse; 4. Methodologies and interfaces; 5. Concluding remarks; References; Changing or maintaining conventions?; Of hopes and plans; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Historical background; 1.2 Data and methodological approach; 2. Major characteristics of prefatory metadiscourse |
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2.1 Position, volume and structure of inaugural comments2.2 Major themes in inaugural comments; 3. Outlining the design of the paper; 4. Constructing identities; 4.1 Constructing the self; 4.2 Constructing the competitors; 4.3 Constructing the target readerships; 5. Conclusion; References; Religious lexis and political ideology in English Civil War newsbooks; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical framework; 3. Mercurius Aulicus 'and' Mercurius Britanicus; 4. Seventeenth-century religious context; 5. Corpus and methodology; 6. Analysis; 6.1 Religious keywords in 'Britanicus'; 6.1.1 Popery |
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6.1.2 Popish6.1.3 Common Prayer; 6.2 Other frequent religious words in 'Aulicus' and 'Britanicus'; 6.2.1 Protestant Religion; 6.2.2 Reformation; 6.2.3 Sacred; 7. Conclusion; References; Contemporary observations on the attention value and selling power of English print advertisements (1700-1760); 1. Introduction; 2. Periodical print advertising (1620-1760); 3. Data; 4. Research Framework; 5. Attention Value; 6. Selling Power; 7. Concluding remarks; References; A modest proposal in 'The Gentleman's Magazine'; 1. Introduction; 2. Research questions and our approach; 3. The Gentleman's Magazine |
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4. A peculiar advertisement4.1 The purported aim and structure of the advertisement; 4.2 On Swift's coattails; 4.3 An ironic satire?; 5. Conclusions; References; Lexical bundles in news discourse 1784-1983; 1. Introduction; 2. Material and method; 2.1 Material; 2.2 Analytical steps; 3. Results; 3.1 Frequency; 3.2 Structures; 3.3 Functions; 4. Discussion; 5. Conclusion; References; Appendix. Four-word bundles identified in the dataset, with their raw frequencies in each sub-corpus (an incomplete list); Widening audiences; British popular newspaper traditions; 1. Introduction |
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2. Popular experimentation3. Victorian Sunday newspapers; 3.1 Generic patterns; 3.2 Melodramatic features; 4. Further commercialisation of the British newspaper market; 5. The 'Daily Mirror': Rise and fall of a newspaper experiment; 6. Tabloid re-launch: New paper on the streets; 7. Rewarding reader contributions; 8. A new style of letters to the newspaper; 9. Creating epistolary dialogues; 10. Conclusion; References; The Poor Man's Guardian; 1. Introduction; 2. Politics, radical journalism, and the 'Poor Man's Guardian'; 3. Data and methodology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Discourse analysis -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History
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Linguistic change -- Great Britain -- History
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Journalism -- Great Britain -- Language
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Journalism -- Great Britain -- History
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Sociolinguistics -- Great Britain
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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Discourse analysis -- Social aspects
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Journalism
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Journalism -- Language
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Linguistic change
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Sociolinguistics
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Palander-Collin, Minna, 1967- editor.
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Ratia, Maura, editor
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Taavitsainen, Irma, editor
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| LC no. |
2017030547 |
| ISBN |
9789027265517 |
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9027265518 |
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