Early Modern English News Discourse
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1. Preface; 2. Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse in Early Modern Britain (by Jucker, Andreas H.); 3. Newspapers; 4. Crime and punishment (by Fries, Udo); 5. Reading late eighteenth-century want ads (by Wright, Laura); 6. "Alwayes in te Orbe of honest Mirth, and next to Truth": Proto-infotainment in the Welch Mercury (by Brownlees, Nicholas); 7. Religious language in early English newspapers? (by Kohnen, Thomas); 8. "As silly as an Irish Teague": Comparisons in early English news discourse (by Claridge, Claudia); 9. "Place yer bets" and "Let us hope": Imperatives and their pragmatic functions in news reports (by Bos, Birte); 10. Pamphlets; 11. Comparing seventeenth-century news broadsides and occasional news pamphlets: Interrelatedness in news reporting (by Cecconi, Elisabetta); 12. "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 (by Levorato, Alessandra); 13. Scientific news discourse; 14. "Joyful News out of the Newfound World": Medical and scientific news reports in Early Modern England (by Taavitsainen, Irma); 15. News filtering processes in the Philosophical Transactions (by Moessner, Lilo); 16. Index

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This well-focused collection comprehends a rich range of subtopics and perspectives [...]. Demonstrating the value of sharp focus and rich context, the collection's contributors employ a range of pragmatic methods. The entire volume reminds us that identifying and analysing trends in new discourse has been facilitated by the increasing availability of digitised texts. It is fitting that the collection is dedicated to Udo Fries, a pioneer in the study of early English newspapers and "the driving force" (p. viii) behind Zurich English Newspaper corpus, drawn on by several contributors here. Indeed, the proliferation of digitised texts underscores the importance of carefully complied corpora.
*Carol Percy, University of Toronto, in Journal of Historical Pragmatics 12:1/2 (2011)*

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