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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459548903321

Autore

Conboy Martin

Titolo

The language of newspapers [[electronic resource] ] : socio-historical perspectives / / Martin Conboy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum, c2010

ISBN

1-282-87362-8

9786612873621

1-4411-2606-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Collana

Advances in sociolinguistics

Disciplina

302.23220941

Soggetti

English newspapers - Language - History

English language - Style - History

Journalism - Social aspects - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The social nature of newspaper language; 1. Society writes back; 2. Putting on a style: The contours of a public sphere; 3. Radical rhetoric: Challenging patterns of control; 4. Shaping the social market; 5. A message from America: A commercial vernacular; 6. Tabloid talk: Twentieth-century template; 7. Technology and newspaper language: The reshaping of public communication; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book charts the connections between the language of journalism in England and its social impact on audiences and social and political debates from the first emergence of periodical publications in the seventeenth century to the present day. It extends work done on the language of the media to include an historical perspective, adding to wider contemporary debates about the social impact of the media. . It draws upon the field of historical pragmatics, while retaining a concentration on the development of a particular form of media language, the newspaper, and its role in refracting and