Language Change In English Newspaper Editorials

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Language Change In English Newspaper Editorials

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Author : Ingrid Westin
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-08-09

Language Change In English Newspaper Editorials written by Ingrid Westin and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This work is a corpus-based study of the language of English up-market (“quality”) newspaper editorials, covering the period 1900–1993. CENE, the Corpus of English Newspaper Editorials, was compiled for the purposes of this study and comprises editorials from the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, and The Times chosen to represent periods at ten-year intervals. The language of the editorials was investigated with regard to features that previous research had proved to be markers of such types of discourse as might be of interest to an investigation of the development of the language of newspaper editorials. To begin with, sets of features associated with the empirically defined dimensions of linguistic variation presented in Biber (1988) were compared across decades and newspapers; these dimensions included personal involvement and information density, narrative discourse, argumentative discourse, abstract discourse, and explicit reference. However, since the study showed that the features within each set often developed in diverging directions, the old sets were broken up and new ones formed on the basis of change and continuity as well as of shared linguistic/stylistic functions, specific for newspaper editorials, among the features involved. It then became apparent that, during the 20th century, the language of the editorials developed towards greater information density and lexical specificity and diversity but at the same time towards greater informality, in so far as the use of conversational features increased. The narrative quality of the editorials at the beginning of the century gradually decreased whereas their reporting and argumentative functions remained the same over the years. When the features were compared across the newspapers analyzed, a clear distinction was noticed between The Times and the Guardian. The language of the Guardian was the most informal and the most narrative while that of The Times was the least so. The information density was the highest inThe Times and the lowest in the Guardian. In these respects, the Daily Telegraph took an intermediate position. The editorials of the Guardian were more argumentative than those of both the Daily Telegraph and The Times. As regards lexical specificity and diversity as well as sentence complexity, the Daily Telegraph scored the highest and The Times the lowest while the results obtained for the Guardian were in between the two.

Language Change In English Newspaper Editorials

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Author : Ingrid Westin
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2002

Language Change In English Newspaper Editorials written by Ingrid Westin and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Computers categories.

To test whether the writing style in "up-market" English language newspaper editorials has become less formal over the past century as in many other genres, Westin studied language trends in three major British papers. After overviewing previous research on newspaper language, the author discusses methodological issues in using machine-readable corpora for analyzing linguistic change over time, and her multi-feature/multi-dimensional approach extending Biber's work on markers of personal involvement to include narrative and other forms of discourse. Charted results reveal both linguistic change and continuity. Appends the frequency counts for each of the study's linguistic features. Lacks an index. It is unclear whether Westin is currently affiliated with Uppsala U. or U. College of Gavle, Sweden. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

News As Changing Texts

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Author : Udo Fries
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-10-28

News As Changing Texts written by Udo Fries and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

The updated and revised edition of this volume maintains its focus on the dialectic interrelation between ‘news’ and ‘change’. News is intended as a textual type in its evolutionary – and revolutionary – development, while change is discussed with reference to the form, content and structure of news texts. The news texts in question range from the first forms of periodical news in the seventeenth century up to the news blogs and social media of the present day. Divided into four chapters, representing key historical moments in the process of news writing, each chapter makes use of a set of corpora specifically designed to suit the needs of scholars working in those particular fields. Topics that the authors examine include pronominal usage and the interrelationship between news writer and reader, heads and headlines, the language of advertisements and other text classes, the trend towards conversationalization, and impartiality and ‘perspective’ in modern-day news. These and other topics, coupled with the varying corpora that are exploited to analyse them, call into question basic methodological issues that are examined from different perspectives. Throughout the volume, the authors contextualise the news publications of the day so as to better understand the continuous process of adjustment and renewal that news texts are subject to over time.

Syntactic Change In Late Modern English

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Author : Erik Smitterberg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-25

Syntactic Change In Late Modern English written by Erik Smitterberg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This book provides a fresh perspective on language change in Late Modern English, and is illustrated with corpus-linguistic case studies.

Change In Contemporary English

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Author : Geoffrey N. Leech
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-22

Change In Contemporary English written by Geoffrey N. Leech and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, and discusses the linguistic and social factors that are contributing to this process.

News Discourse

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Author : Monika Bednarek
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-10-19

News Discourse written by Monika Bednarek and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Now reissued and retypeset, this canonical book explores the role of language and images in newspaper, radio, online and television news. The authors introduce useful frameworks for analysing language, image and the interaction between the two, and illustrate these with authentic news stories from around the English-speaking world, ranging from the Oktoberfest to environmental disasters to the killing of Osama bin Laden. This analysis persuasively illustrates how events are retold in the news and made 'newsworthy' through both language and image. This clearly written and accessible introduction to news discourse is essential reading for students, lecturers and researchers in linguistics, media and journalism studies and semiotics.

Diachronic Corpora Genre And Language Change

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Author : Richard J. Whitt
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2018-11-15

Diachronic Corpora Genre And Language Change written by Richard J. Whitt and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the intersecting fields of corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, and genre-based studies of language usage. Papers in this collection are devoted to presenting relevant methods pertinent to corpus-based studies of the connection between genre and language change, linguistic changes that occur in particular genres, and specific diachronic phenomena that are influenced by genre factors to greater and lesser degrees. Data are drawn from a number of languages, and the scope of the studies presented here is both short- and long-term, covering cases of recent change as well as more long-term alterations.

Broadening The Spectrum Of Corpus Linguistics

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Author : Susanne Flach
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2022-11-15

Broadening The Spectrum Of Corpus Linguistics written by Susanne Flach and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This volume presents a snapshot of the current state of the art of research in English corpus linguistics. It contains selected papers from the 40th ICAME conference in 2019 and features contributions from experts in synchronic, diachronic, and contrastive linguistics, as well as in sociolinguistics, phonetics, discourse analysis, and learner language. The volume showcases the particular strengths of research in the ICAME tradition. The papers in this volume offer new insights from the reanalysis of new data types, methodological refinements and advancements of quantitative analysis, and from taking new perspectives on ongoing debates in their respective fields.

Statistical Language And Speech Processing

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Author : Adrian-Horia Dediu
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-07-24

Statistical Language And Speech Processing written by Adrian-Horia Dediu and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-24 with Computers categories.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2013, held in Tarragona, Spain, in July 2013. The 24 full papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the fields of computational language and speech processing and the statistical methods that are currently in use.

Data And Methods In Corpus Linguistics

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Author : Ole Schützler
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-05-26

Data And Methods In Corpus Linguistics written by Ole Schützler and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-26 with Computers categories.

By contrasting different approaches and datasets, this book highlights critical developments in latest corpus-linguistic research.