Early modern English news discourse newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse / edited by Andreas H. Jucker.
| Author/creator | CHINED (Conference) |
| Other author | Jucker, Andreas H. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., |
| Description | vi, 227 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Series | Pragmatics & beyond new series, 0922-842X ; v. 187 Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 187. ^A284504 |
| Contents | 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. |
| General note | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009008214 |
| ISBN | 9789027254320 (hb : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 902725432X (hb : alk. paper) |
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