News as Changing Texts

Roberta Facchinetti is Professor of English Language at the University of Verona. Her main research interests, which are supported by the use of computerised corpora of both synchronic and diachronic English, focus on media linguistics, lexicography and ESP. On these subjects she has authored, co-authored and edited various books and articles, including "English in social media: A linguistic analysis of tweets" (2015), "Newsroom jargon at the crossroads of corpus linguistics and lexicography" (2014) and A Cultural Journey through the English Lexicon (2012).Nicholas Brownlees is Associate Professor of English Language at the University of Florence. He is the co-compiler of the Florence Early English Newspapers Corpus, and has written extensively on news discourse in the early modern era. He is the author of The Language of Periodical News in Seventeenth Century England (2014, second edition) and founder of the CHINED series of conferences on historical news discourse.Birte Boes is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Her research interests include synchronic and diachronic pragmatics, discourse analysis and media linguistics. She has investigated the communicative practices of historical and modern news discourse, and she is the co-editor of Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse (2015).Udo Fries was Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, until his retirement in 2007. He has published widely in the fields of English philology, syntax and text linguistics. In recent years, he has concentrated on work in computer corpus linguistics, producing ZEN (The Zurich English Newspaper Corpus), a corpus of 17th- and 18th-century English newspapers.