[ecrea] CfP: The Social Implications of Genre in Historical News Language (CHINED VI)

*The Social Implications of Genre in Historical News Language (CHINED VI)*
21-23 June 2017, University of Sheffield

The sixth international conference on historical news discourse 
(CHINED).____

*Proposal submission deadline 31 January 2017____*

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*Conference website: https://chined6.wordpress.com/
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The varieties of genre within news language have enabled it to retain a 
vitality which has kept readers interested in consuming the products of 
printed news for centuries. Beyond providing variety of representation, 
genre is a highly social, even ideological category. It is an integral 
aspect of the compact between writer and reader of news. Readers not 
only know what to expect within different news genres but beyond this 
they are enabled to locate themselves within a wide range of social and 
political contexts. Different generic strategies within news discourse 
draw particular social groups into historically specific styles of 
representation.  Contributions are therefore invited which explore the 
specific linguistic construction of genre in news language 1641 - 1945

Of particular interest are class and gendered aspects to genre:

· Political reporting____

· Fashion writing____

· Advocacy journalism____

· Sports reporting____

· Letter writing____

· Leading articles____

· War reporting____

· Financial news____

· ‘Hard’ news____

· Crime news____

· Broadsheets and pamphlets____

· Radical press____

· Poetry as news____

· Metaphor in the news

Although there is a concentration of work in the English language 
presentations of work on news discourse in other languages are welcome. 
We encourage a wide range of methodological approaches including 
discourse, pragmatic, content analysis or stylistic, sociolinguistic 
approaches

Proposals of up to 500 words are invited for papers of 20 minutes which 
address an aspect or aspects of genre in historical news discourse. 
*_Please email your proposal to (mtang5 /at/ sheffield.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(mtang5 /at/ sheffield.ac.uk)> by 31 January 2017. _*

As in the past, it is envisaged that the conference will lead to the 
publication of a high-quality volume of essays.

For more information please visit the conference website 
https://chined6.wordpress.com/ <https://chined6.wordpress.com/>.

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