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Early modern English news discourse [electronic resource]

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Title Early modern English news discourse [electronic resource] : newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse / edited by Andreas H. Jucker.
Publisher Philadelphia
Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Company
Creation Date c2009
Notes 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.
English
Content 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 -- 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.
Series Pragmatics & beyond new series, issn 0922-842x
v. 187
Extent 1 online resource (240 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010718993105171
MARC RECORDS
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