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...

This collection of essays honours Beate Dreike an outstanding scholar and teacher, who has been working at the crossroads between philosophy, linguistics, and literature for the past thirty years. The contributors to this volume, colleagues from Cork University College, Ireland, Great Britain and Germany follow lines of research Beate Dreike has drawn, or pick up on themes and topics she has investigated.
Die Beitrage dieses Bandes sind eine Hommage an Beate Dreike, eine aussergewohnliche Lehrerin und Wissenschaftlerin, die uber die letzten 30 Jahre hinweg an der Schnittstelle von...