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The Language of Newspapers Dr Martin Conboy

The Language of Newspapers By Dr Martin Conboy

The Language of Newspapers by Dr Martin Conboy


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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.

The Language of Newspapers Summary

The Language of Newspapers: Socio-Historical Perspectives by Dr Martin Conboy

This title charts the connections between the language of journalism in England and its social impact on audiences from the seventeenth century to the present day. 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 contributing to social developments. Dialogue is created between sociolinguistics and journalism studies. It is ideally suited to advanced students in these areas and in linguistics and media studies in general. Since the emergence of sociolinguistics as a new field of enquiry in the late 1960s, research into the relationship between language and society has advanced almost beyond recognition. In particular, the past decade has witnessed the considerable influence of theories drawn from outside of sociolinguistics itself. Thus rather than see language as a mere reflection of society, recent work has been increasingly inspired by ideas drawn from social, cultural, and political theory that have emphasised the constitutive role played by language/discourse in all areas of social life. The Advances in Sociolinguistics series seeks to provide a snapshot of the current diversity of the field of sociolinguistics and the blurring of the boundaries between sociolinguistics and other domains of study concerned with the role of language in society.

The Language of Newspapers Reviews

Conboy provides a fresh and lively account of the emergence of early English newspapers and their development through the centuries. In this important new book, he unravels the fascinating story of how newspapers helped to shape and were shaped by social, political and historical events. -Andreas H. Jucker, Professor of English linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

About Dr Martin Conboy

Martin Conboy is a Reader in Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield., UK. He is author of several books on journalism studies, editor of the Journalism Studies series at SAGE, and serves on the editorial board of Journalism: Theory, Practice, Criticism

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Social Nature of Newspaper Language; 1. Society Writes Back; 2. Putting on a Style; 3. Radical Rhetoric; 4. Shaping The Social Market; 5. A Message From America; 6. Tabloid Talk; 7. Technology; Bibliography; Index.

Additional information

NLS9781847061812
9781847061812
1847061818
The Language of Newspapers: Socio-Historical Perspectives by Dr Martin Conboy
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2010-02-18
192
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