TY - BOOK ID - 78141699 TI - Historical corpus stylistics PY - 2008 SN - 1441139176 1282014161 9786612014161 1441131698 9781441131690 0826494307 9780826494306 9780826494306 9781441131690 1441158251 PB - London Continuum DB - UniCat KW - English language KW - Newspapers KW - Corpora (Linguistics) KW - Corpus-based analysis (Linguistics) KW - Corpus linguistics KW - Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) KW - Mass media KW - Nonbook materials KW - Serial publications KW - Periodicals KW - Press KW - Germanic languages KW - Style KW - History. KW - Language KW - Corpora (Linguistics). KW - Discourse analysis. KW - Style. KW - Language. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78141699 AB - 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 ER -