The Language of Periodical News in Seventeenth-Century England

Author:   Nicholas Brownlees
Publisher:   Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition:   Unabridged edition
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9781443828550


Pages:   245
Publication Date:   09 March 2011
Format:   Hardback
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This volume follows the beginnings and development of seventeenth-century English periodical print news and sees how contemporary news writers shaped their news discourse over the decades. Interdisciplinary in its approach, the volume analyses the different strategies employed by news writers of the day as they determined how best to present and write up both foreign and domestic events for a news-obsessed English readership.In his examination of the language used in corantos, newsbooks and gazettes-the first forms of periodical news in the English press-Nicholas Brownlees provides innovative analyses regarding a rich variety of topics including: the role of translation in early periodical news; the language of hard news in corantos and news pamphlets; forms and styles of epistolary news; fluctuating editorial strategies used to address and involve the reader; text structure and prototypical headlines; English news discourse within a wider European news context; the language of propaganda in the English Civil War; periodicity and the reporting of the Tuscan crisis in 1653; the language of 'Advertisements' in The London Gazette; the changing fortunes and semantics of News, Intelligence and Advice.In its focus on how news writers worked and experimented with seventeenth-century English language structures and discourse conventions to forge a style of news rhetoric that could inform, persuade and even entertain, this volume is essential reading for all historians, news analysts and historical linguists working in the early modern period.

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Author:   Nicholas Brownlees
Publisher:   Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint:   Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Weight:   0.599kg
ISBN:  

9781443828550


ISBN 10:   1443828556
Pages:   245
Publication Date:   09 March 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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The topic of printed news has recently received much scholarly attention, but Nicholas Brownlees's work, with its focus on language, is unique. He applies judicious analysis to numerous printed news items as he explores the linguistic techniques used in seventeenth-century newswriting. [...] This book is a welcome addition to the corpus of work on seventeenth-century news. Brownlees is at his best when he breaks down the word usage in news reports to provide new insights into editors' methods of persuading their readers. Benjamin WoodfordUniversity of WaterlooThe Historian, 78: 3 (2016)


The topic of printed news has recently received much scholarly attention, but Nicholas Brownlees's work, with its focus on language, is unique. He applies judicious analysis to numerous printed news items as he explores the linguistic techniques used in seventeenth-century newswriting. [...] This book is a welcome addition to the corpus of work on seventeenth-century news. Brownlees is at his best when he breaks down the word usage in news reports to provide new insights into editors' methods of persuading their readers. Benjamin Woodford University of Waterloo The Historian, 78: 3 (2016)


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Nicholas Brownlees is Associate Professor of English Language at the University of Florence, Italy. He has written extensively on early modern news and edited News Discourse in Early Modern Britain (2006). He is also co-editor of The Language of Public and Private Communication in a Historical Perspective (2010).

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