ENGLISH

Historical Corpus Stylistics (Corpus and Discourse)

By Patrick Studer

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0826494307, 9780826494306
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (16232375 bytes)
Pages
280\280
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Лингвостилистика и

Description

Using data from a newspaper corpus, this book offers the first empirical study into the development of style in early mass media. The book analyses how news discourse was shaped over time by external factors, such as the historical context, news production, technological innovation and current affairs, and as such both conformed to and deviated from generic conventions. In this analysis, media style appears as a dynamic concept which is highly sensitive to innovative approaches towards making news not only informative but also entertaining to read. This cutting edge survey will be of interest to academics researching corpus linguistics, media discourse and stylistics.

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