Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse

Name: Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse
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Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Preface
Introduction
References
Part I. The formation of public news discourse and metadiscursive terminology
"We have in some former bookes told you": The significance of metatext in 17th-century English news
1. Introduction
2. Definitions
3. Data and method
3.1 Electronic corpora and archives
3.2 Methodology
4. Analysis
4.1 Beginnings of periodical news (1620-1641)
4.2 From the Civil War to the London Gazette (1642-1665)
4.3 From the London Gazette to the lapse of the Licensing Act (1665-1695)
5. Concluding comments
Corpus of analysis
References
Corpora, archives and tools
Secondary sources
Conceptualisations, sources and agents of news: Key terms as signposts of changing journalistic practices
1. Introduction: Aim, data and methods
2. Concepts of news
2.1 Basic conceptualisation of news: News, advice, information, intelligence, tidings, account, and report
2.2 Reflections of news values in adjectival premodification
2.3 Evaluative conceptualisations of news: Discourse and rumour
3. News gathering and transmission
3.1 Written messages communicating news: Letter, mail, despatch/dispatch, express, and bulletin
4. Agents of news processing: Correspondent, reporter, journalist, editor, and Reuter
5. Conclusion
References
Corpora and tools
Secondary sources
Part II. Changing modes of reference and shifts in audience orientation
News in space and time
1. Introduction
2. Representing time and space in newspapers
3. News writing: Inputs, models and transformations
4. Findings
4.1 Time
4.2 Places
5. Conclusions
References
Corpora and tools
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Changing genre conventions and sociocultural change: Person-mention in 19th-century English advertis
1. Advertisements as a promotional genre
2. Person-mention in advertisements
2.1 Previous research
2.2 Advertiser-reference and audience-mention: Basic forms and functions
3. Advertisements in their sociocultural context
3.1 Psychobiography
3.2 Situated activity
3.3 Social setting
3.4 Contextual resources
4. Advertisements from The Times and The Morning Post
5. Frequency of person-mention
6. Grammatical and interpersonal functions of advertiser- and audience-mention
7. Conclusion
References
Corpora and archives
Secondary sources
Late Modern English death notices: Transformations of a traditional text type
1. Introduction
2. Death notices: An introduction to the text type
3. The Corpus of English Death Notices (CEDN): Compilation and composition
4. Medium-specific constraints: Death notices in the wider discourse context
4.1 Position in the newspaper
4.2 Layout and typography
4.3 Principles of order
4.4 Text length
5. A template of death notices: Macro-structural elements and their micro-linguistic development
5.1 Name
5.2 Date
5.3 Place
5.4 Circumstances
5.5 Occupation and origin
5.6 Relation
5.7 Age
5.8 Grief
5.9 Funeral
5.10 Requests
5.11 Communicative functions of grief, requests and funeral
5.12 Other information
5.13 Verb denoting death
6. Conclusion
References
Corpora
Secondary sources
Medical news in England 1665-1800 in journals for professional and lay audiences
1. Dissemination of scientific knowledge
2. Aim, background and method
3. Definitions of 'news' and 'scientific news'
4. Distribution channels of medical news in the early modern period, 1665-1700
5. Data of the study in the early modern period
6. Empirical assessment
6.1 Keyword analysis with EMEMT normalized texts: PT vs. contemporary medical texts
6.2 Qualitative analysis: Genres of medical writing in the Philosophical Transactions
6.2.1 Medical case reports of unusual events
6.2.2 The experimental report
6.2.3 Book reviews
7. Distribution channels of medical knowledge, 1700-1800
7.1 Descriptions of the data sources in the 18th century: The Philosophical Transactions, The Edinburgh Medical Journal and The Gentleman's Magazine
7.1.1 The Philosophical Transactions in the 18th century
7.1.2 The Edinburgh Medical Journal
7.1.3 The Gentleman's Magazine
8. Professional vs. lay medical news
8.1 Keyword analysis
8.1.1 The Gentleman's Magazine vs. The Philosophical Transactions
8.1.2 The Gentleman's Magazine vs. The Edinburgh Medical Journal
8.2 Qualitative analysis: Medical writing in the Gentleman's Magazine
8.2.1 Accidents and casualities
8.2.2 Miraculous cures and monstrous births
8.2.3 Book reviews
8.2.4 Recipes
8.2.5 Polemical debates on health issues
8.2.6 Patients' views
9. Private and public medical practice in GM
10. Conclusions
References
Corpora and tools
Secondary sources
Part III. Transgressing boundaries and shifting styles
Comparing discourse construction in 17th-century news genres: A case study of murder reports
1. Introduction
2. News genres
3. Sources and methodology
4. Layout of the content page
5. Proto-lead
5.1 The structure of the proto-lead
5.1.1 Broadsides
5.1.2 Pamphlets
5.1.3 Newsbooks
5.2 Editorial metadiscourse in the proto-lead: Self-descriptors and their collocates
5.3 Proto-leads: The murderer and the victim
5.4 Proto-leads: Information surrounding the main event
6. The body of the news
6.1 Commentaries/evaluations
6.2 Factuality
6.3 Metadiscourse
7. Conclusions
References
Corpora, archives and tools
Secondary sources
Speech-like syntax in written texts: Changing syntactic conventions in news discourse
1. Introduction
2. Methodology and data
3. Structural properties of spoken and written language
4. Speech-like syntactic structures in written news discourse: Data analysis
4.1 Conjunctions used as discourse-structuring devices: and and but
4.2 Fragmented sentences: Syntactic increments
4.2.1 Disintegrated clausal units
4.2.2 Non-clausal increments
4.2.3 Increments today and in 1900
5. Conclusion
References
Appendix
Playing upon news genre conventions: The case of Mark Twain's news satire
1. Introduction
2. Sketching the concept of news satire
3. Defining the scope of news satire
4. Introducing the notion of comic incongruity
5. Applying a linguistic Model of News Satire to Twain's texts
5.1 The intertextual component
5.2 The critical component
5.3 The comic component
6. Conclusion
Corpus of analysis
References
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Index

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