This volume explores the dynamics of genre conventions in historical English news discourse. The contributions cover a wide spectrum of news writing and publica

The history of English news discourse is characterised by intriguing multilevel developments, and the present cannot be separated from them. For example, audien

This volume explores the complex relations of texts and their contextualising elements, drawing particularly on the notions of paratext, metadiscourse and frami

The updated and revised edition of this volume maintains its focus on the dialectic interrelation between ‘news’ and ‘change’. News is intended as a tex

Syntactic Change in Late Modern English presents a stability paradox to linguists; despite the many social changes that took place between 1700 and 1900, the la