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Media and Language Change

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 4:1 (2003)

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Edited by Susan C. Herring

Indiana University Bloomington

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 4:1

2003. iv, 159 pp.
Publishing status: Available

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Table of contents

Articles
Media and Language Change: Introduction Susan C. Herring	1–17
Textual structures in eighteenth-century newspapers: A corpus-based study of headlines Patrick Studer	19–44
Prescription and practice: Motivations behind change in news discourse Colleen Cotter	45–74
When news isn’t news: The case of national holidays Diana ben-Aaron	75–102
Language change via satellite: The influence of German television broadcasting on Austrian German Rudolf Muhr	103–127
Mass media communication at the beginning of the twenty-first century: Dimensions of change Andreas H. Jucker	129–148
Book Reviews
Review of “English Media Texts — Past and Present: Language and Textual Structure” by Friedrich Ungerer (ed.) Reviewed by Diana ben-Aaron	149–153
Review of “Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It’s Heading” by Naomi S. Baron Reviewed by Susan C. Herring	153–158

Linguistics: Historical linguistics
Pragmatics