Role of Context in the Production and Reception of Historical News Discourse

Nicholas Brownlees is Professor of English Language at the University of Florence, Italy. He is the co-compiler of the Florence Early English Newspapers Corpus (FEEN) and has written extensively on news discourse in the early modern era. He is the author of The Language of Periodical News in Seventeenth Century England (2014, 2nd edition), co-author of News as Changing Texts: Corpora, Methodologies and Analysis (2015, 2nd edition), and editor of News Discourse in Early Modern Britain (2006) and The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, vol. 1 1640-1800 (forthcoming). He is founder and Board Member of the series of international conferences on Historical News Discourse (CHINED).

• Nicholas Brownlees: Introduction – Elisabetta Cecconi: Propaganda Discourse in Context: Pro and Anti-Strafford Pamphlets on the Eve of the English Civil War – Carla Suhr: False News in the English Press in the 1680s – Irma Taavitsainen: Scientific Book Reviews in the Seventeenth Century: Early Stages of the Genre – Hye-Joon Yoon: News as History: The Context of Edmund Burke’s Historical Articles in The Annual Register (1758–1764) and their Rhetoric of Contextualisation – Claudia Claridge: Murder in the Press: Representations of Old Bailey Murder Trials in Newspapers – Turo Vartiainen/Turo Hiltunen/Minna Palander-Collin: Linguistic Contexts of Social Change: Tracing the Decline of the Master-Servant Institution in Three Corpora – Birte Bös: Contextualising British Suffrage Newspapers – Javier Díaz-Noci: From Italy to Spain: Style and Narration in the First Semi-Periodical Newspaper in Spanish – Roberta Facchinetti: Socio-Political Context and the Press in Early 20th Century China: A Case Study – Maija Stenvall: “Fears are entertained” – Constructing ‘Fear’ in News Agency Reports in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century – Sandra Tuna/Elsa Simões/Jorge Pedro Sousa: ‘Never let truth get in the way of a good story’: The Journalistic Style of Reinaldo Ferreira (Reporter X) and William Randolph Hearst – Matylda Włodarczyk: “Whoever will discover where he lurks”: Presenting Addressees and Advertisers in Runaway Slave Classifieds – Viola Wiegand: Surveillance Contexts in 19th-century British Mental Healthcare: A Study of Adverts in The Times – Davide Mazzi: “If you want Ireland to prosper...”: A Discourse-Analytic Study of Irishness in Irish Newspaper Advertising of the 1930s – Elsa Simões: Advertising and Newspapers in Context: Dorothy L. Sayers’s Murder Must Advertise (1933) – Notes on Contributors