Historical Corpus Stylistics - Media, Technology and Change

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List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Studer, Studer Patrick
• Assisted by: Michaela Mahlberg (Editor), Wolfgang Teubert (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.2008
• EAN: 9780826494306
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-9430-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Corpus and Discourse; Research in Corpus and Discour; Corpus and Discourse; Research in Corpus and Discour
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Computational and corpus linguistics