Exploring the language of the popular in American and British newspapers 1833–1988

Conboy, Martin

doi:10.1075/jhp.15.2.01con

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“…In the rare cases in which a topic has been approached contrastively (e.g. Allen, 2018;Conboy, 2014;Pan and Kádár, 2011), the data are drawn from written sources. The reason for this is clear: authentic data on language use in the past are hard to obtain.…”

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“…Allen (2018) compares lexical bundles found in the language input of a selection of historical (1905)(1906)(1907) and current (2004-2014) English language teaching material. The collection of papers in Popular News Discourse in American and British newspapers 1833-1988, a special issue of the Journal of Historical Pragmatics, compare and contrast "the various strategies employed by popular newspapers to articulate an idealized version of the interests and language of their readers for profit and political influence" (Conboy, 2014). Lastly, Pan and Kádár (2011) investigate politeness in Chinese, contrasting historical and contemporary periods.…”

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End-of-Dinner Food Offering: A Three-Way Contrastive Study

Chen

Chunmei

2020

Contrastive Pragmatics

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This paper presents a three-way contrastive study of the structure of the end-of-dinner food offering event – hosts asking guests to eat more food when the latter have indicated that they have finished eating – across three population groups: Chinese residents of the City of Xi’an as of 1995 (as reported in Chen, 1996), American residents of Southern California as of 2019, and Chinese residents of Xi’an as of 2019. It is found that, in 2019, Americans living in Southern California only infrequently offer their guests more food at the end of a dinner, while the Chinese residents of Xi’an (the Xi’an Chinese) offer their guests food much less often than in 1995, although still more frequently than their American counterparts. The difference observed between the Chinese and American groups is attributed to the different notions of politeness that are held in the two cultures: the Xi’an Chinese still maintain elements of hospitality and warmth as key notions of politeness, in a similar way to Libyan Arabic speakers, as discovered by Grainger, Mansor and Mills (2015), while the offering behaviour of Southern Californians is motivated by the respect they hold for another person’s freedom of action. The noticeable change in the way food is offered at the end of a Chinese dinner between 1995 and 2019 – which can be seen to be a process of ‘deritualisation’ (Kádár, 2013) – is due to the influence of Western cultures. The significance of our work thus goes beyond the understanding of both food offering in Chinese and Chinese politeness: it adds to the scant literature on the structure of the offering event across cultures and places Chinese politeness in the context of other languages; it brings insights from language contact into the field of pragmatics, a decades-long research paradigm; and it demonstrates the value of diachronic contrastive pragmatics, a direction that will no doubt aid the advancement of contrastive pragmatics in particular and, as a consequence, pragmatics in general.

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End-of-Dinner Food Offering: A Three-Way Contrastive Study

Chen

Chunmei

2020

Contrastive Pragmatics

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“…Arguing on the complex relationship between language and media, Conboy (2010) suggests that the two can be differentiated by the roles each plays in the presentation of activities: Language is thoroughly a social activity and media extends that activity. In other words, meanings, ideals and social constructs are reflected in language while the media serves as the vessel by which the meanings and constructs are communicated.…”

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“…According to Conboy (2010), “the language of newspapers has always encapsulated what would sell to audiences and how information could best be packaged and presented to achieve this commercial end at any particular time” (p. 1). This conceptualization of the language of the newspaper suggests that editors and writers of newspapers are goal-driven and the language of newspapers is specially couched to achieve certain purposes.…”

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Utilizing attributive patterns as a linguistic classification tool of newspapers

Mintah

2023

Newspaper Research Journal

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The indices for the classification of newspapers have often focused on agenda-setting roles, economic position and size of newspapers, among others. Concerning newspapers in Africa, Moehler and Singh (2011) and Hasty (2005) assert that the only index for the classification of newspapers is ownership. The study, therefore, focuses on the patterns of the attributive mode of the transitivity system of Systemic Functional Grammar to propose a linguistic alternative index for classifying newspapers. The findings indicate that the patterns of attributions that occur are significant and viable enough to classify newspapers.

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“…The key focus of the network and the conference was the exploration of the language of popular newspapers in Anglo-American press from 1833-1988. As the conference organiser Martin Conboy notes (Conboy 2014) there is a ÔrefreshingÕ abundance of work which examines both British and American journalism in the 19th and 20th centuries which has Ôsketched out the mutual influencesÕ therein. The papers in this volume then draw on these themes as well as signal developments and opportunities in the production, use and development of digital archives themselves.…”

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confidence: 99%