In Early Modern Britain, new publication channels were developed and new textual genres established themselves. News discourse became increasingly more important and reached wider audiences, with pamphlets as the first real mass media. Newspapers appeared, first on a weekly and then on a daily basis. And scientific news discourse in the form of letters exchanged between fellow scholars turned into academic journals. The papers in this volume provide state-of-the art analyses of these developments.
The first part of the volume contains studies of early newspapers that range from reports of crime and punishment to want ads, and from traces of religious language in early newspapers to the use of imperatives. The second part is devoted to pamphlets and provides detailed analyses of news reporting and of impoliteness strategies. The last section is devoted to scientific news discourse and traces the early publication formats in their various manifestations.

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Early Modern English News Discourse: Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)

CHINED (Conference) (2nd 2007 Kartause Ittingen)

edited by Andreas H. Jucker

Jucker, Andreas H. (editor)

Andreas H Jucker; Kongress

Benjamins, John

Pragmatics & beyond new series -- v. 187, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2009

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The papers in this volume were presented at the second Conference on Historical News Discourse (CHINED) held at the Kartause Ittingen (Switzerland), on August 31 and September 1, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Early Modern English News Discourse 2
Editorial page 3
Title page 4
LCC data 5
Table of contents 6
Preface 8
Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse in Early Modern Britain 10
References 17
Newspapers 20
Crime and punishmen 22
1. Introduction 22
2. Identifying text classes 23
3. Borderline cases 24
3.1 Introductory whereas 24
3.2 Introductory past participle 27
4. Crime reports proper 28
4.1 Time reference 29
4.2 The grammatical subject: The victim and the criminal 29
4.3 The crime itself 31
4.4 Information surrounding the crime 32
4.5 Newspaper commentaries 34
5. Punishment 34
5.1 Imprisonment 34
5.2 Sentence 35
5.3 Trials 37
6. Summary and outlook 38
References 39
Reading late eighteenth-century want ads 40
1. Introduction 40
2. The conventions of the “WANTS a Place” advertisement 41
2.1 “Genteel” 42
2.2 “Character” 45
2.3 “From the month” 50
2.4 “Understands business” 51
2.5 “Professed” 52
2.6 “In or out of livery” 54
2.7 “No office-keepers” and “principals only” 54
2.8 “Can bear confinement” and “followers” 56
2.9 “Of light weight” and “either way” 59
2.10 “Go a job” and “go the circuit” 59
2.11 “Flatters him/herself ” 60
2.12 “Both capacities” 61
3. Summary 62
Sources 63
References 63
"Alwayes in te Orbe of honest Mirth, and next to Truth" 66
1. Introduction 66
2. The Welch Mercury 67
2.1 Wit and mirth in The Welch Mercury numbers 1–3 68
2.2 News in The Welch Mercury numbers 1–3 72
2.3 Mirth in The Welch Mercury numbers 4–8 77
2.4 News in The Welch Mercury numbers 4–8 79
3. Conclusion 80
References 80
Religious language in early English newspapers? 82
1. Introduction 82
2. Comparing two corpora: Keywords 83
3. Linguistic analysis 86
3.1 Selected keywords in the ZEN Corpus: Distribution across sub-genres and typical uses 87
3.2 Selected keywords: Collocations in prayers and news discourse 92
4. Conclusions 97
References 98
"As silly as an Irish Teague" 100
1. Introduction 100
2. Comparison 102
3. The data 103
4. Functions of comparisons in newspapers 108
5. Further aspects of comparisons 115
6. Conclusion 121
Sources 121
References 122
"Place yer bets" and "Let us hope" 124
1. Introduction 124
2. Preparing the analysis: The communicative situation in newspapers 125
3. Imperatives in the RNC: Quantitative results 126
4. Formal aspects: “Ordinary” imperatives and let-constructions 129
5. Pragmatic analysis of imperatives 130
5.1 General characteristics 130
5.2 Communicative constellations 131
5.3 Detailed account of pragmatic functions 135
6. Conclusion 139
References 141
Pamphlets 144
Comparing seventeenth-century news broadsides and occasional news pamphlets 146
1. Introduction 146
2. “Strange and Wonderfull Newes” in broadsides and occasional pamphlets 147
3. The rhetoric of news discourse: Schema categories and persuasive content features 149
4. News presentation on the front page: Major headlines, proto-leads and woodcuts 150
5. Structuring of the episode 157
6. Conclusion 164
Sources 165
References 165
"From you, my Lord, professions are but words - 168
1. Aims and objectives 168
2. The data 169
3. Some information on the context 170
3.1 The socio-historical and political background 170
3.2 The participants 171
4. Outline of impoliteness research 172
5. The realisation of impoliteness in anti/unionist discourse 175
6. Analysis: On record strategies 176
6.1 Rhetorical and response seeking challenges 176
6.2 Negative impoliteness strategies 182
6.3 Positive impoliteness strategies 185
7. Off record strategies 190
8. Conclusion 191
References 192
Appendix 193
Scientific news discourse 196
"Joyful News out of the Newfound World" 198
1. Introduction 198
2. Aim and method of the paper 199
3. What do we mean by news reports? 200
4. The structure of news reports 200
5. News in the corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts 202
6. An early domestic news report 203
7. Foreign news 204
7.1 Of the newe la~des and of ye people (1520?) 205
7.2 A new iuterlude [sic] ... of dyuers straunge landys and of dyuers straunge effects [and] causis (1520?) 207
7.3 Ioyfull nevves out of the newe founde worlde... (1580) 208
8. Conclusions 211
Sources 211
Bibliography 212
News filtering processes in the Philosophical Transactions 214
1. Introduction 214
2. Channels of scientific news discourse in the seventeenth century 214
3. Henry Oldenburg: The first editor of the Philosophical Transactions 215
4. Oldenburg’s news filters 217
4.1 The quantitative filter 218
4.2 The qualitative filter 219
5. Discussion of results 225
6. Conclusion 229
Primary source 230
References 230
Index 232
The Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 238

Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse in early modern Britain / Andreas H. Jucker -- Newspapers. Crime and punishment / Udo Fries -- Reading late eighteenth-century want ads / Laura Wright -- "Alwayes in te orbe of honest mirth, and next to truth": proto-infotainment in the Welch mercury / Nicholas Brownlees -- Religious language in early English newspapers? / Thomas Kohnen -- "As silly as an Irish Teague": comparisons in early English news discourse / Claudia Claridge -- "Place yer bets" and "Let us hope": imperatives and their pragmatic functions in news reports / Birte Bös -- Early modern English news discourse pamphlets. Comparing seventeenth-century news broadsides and occasional news pamphlets: interrelatedness in news reporting / Elisabetta Cecconi -- "From you, my Lord, professions are but words they are so much bait for fools to catch at": impoliteness strategies in the 1797-1800 Act of Union pamphlet debate / Alessandra Levorato -- Scientific news discourse. "Joyful news out of the newfound world": medical and scientific news reports in early modern England / Irma Taavitsainen -- News filtering processes in the philosophical transactions / Lilo Moessner

The papers in this volume were presented at the second Conference on Historical News Discourse (CHINED) held at the Kartause Ittingen (Switzerland), on August 31 and September 1, 2007.

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