Editor for this issue: Tomoko Okuno <tomoko
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Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Journal Title: Journal of Historical Pragmatics Volume Number: 4 Issue Number: 1 Issue Date: 2003 Subtitle: Media and Language Change. Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 4:1 (2003). Main text: 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.) Diana ben-Aaron 149 - 153 Review of "Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading" by Naomi S. Baron Susan C. Herring 153 - 158 Lingfield(s): PragmaticsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue