[Corpora-List] Book Announcement: NEWS AS CHANGING TEXTS: CORPORA, METHODOLOGIES AND ANALYSIS

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NEWS AS CHANGING TEXTS: CORPORA, METHODOLOGIES AND ANALYSIS

Authors: Roberta FACCHINETTI, Nicholas BROWNLEES, Birte BÖS and Udo FRIES


Date of Publication: Feb 2012
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-3566-4
Isbn: 1-4438-3566-8

This  book focuses on the dialectic interrelation between ‘news’ and   ‘change’, whereby 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 such typological variety   explored across the centuries, largely in the British environment.

The   time spans in the chapters have been distributed according to (a)   historical key moments in the process of news-writing changes, and (b)   extant computerized corpora covering such periods, thereby permitting   specific linguistic analyses. Indeed, each chapter makes use of a set of   corpora specifically devised to suit the needs of scholars studying  the  periods under scrutiny.

The  topics discussed and the  corpora exploited to analyze them call into  question basic  methodological issues that are tackled from different  perspectives in  the book, while the epicentre of all research remains  the news itself,  in a continuous process of adjustment and renewal.

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