Historical Corpus Stylistics

Media, Technology and Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9430-6
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

Reihe: Corpus and Discourse

Using data from a newspaper corpus, this book offers the first empirical study into the development of style in early mass media. The book analyses 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, this book offers the first empirical study into the development of style in early mass media. The book analyses 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. 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 academics researching corpus linguistics, media discourse and stylistics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Studer, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction
Part I: Socio-Stylistic Dimensions
1. Historical Corpus Stylistics and Early News Media

2. Media Performance and Organization Profiles

3. Media Variation and Stylistic Change

4. Performance and Style: A Socio-Stylistic Profile

Part II: Technologically Facilitated Innovation

5. Visual Foregrounding in Early Eighteenth-Century Headlines

6. Syntactic Foregrounding in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century News Discourse

Part III: Situational Aspects: News Context and Early Media Change

7.Macrotextual Foregrounding Strategies in Eighteenth-Century News Discourse

8.Microtextual Foregrounding Strategies: Comment and News Context

Conclusion

References

Appendices I-III

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Studer is a Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Applied Sciences in Zurich and a Researcher in Linguistics at the University of Bern, Switzerland.