Patrick Studer

Historical Corpus Stylistics (eBook, PDF)

Media, Technology and Change

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 academics researching corpus linguistics, media discourse and stylistics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441131690
• Artikelnr.: 40692810

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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