The Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University hosts the ninth edition of the Conference on Historical News Discourse. CHINED IX “Historical News Discourse in a Comparative Perspective” will be held on 23-24 May 2024.
Call for Papers:
This call for papers invites contributions on historical news discourse from 1500 to 1945 in settings that may bring new insights into the comparative and transnational histories of the domain. The comparative perspective envisages that at least one of the objects of comparison regards English news discourse. Recent research has shown that not only did news, and hence its discourse, develop in parallel in different geographic locations as countless copycat successful periodicals showcase, but it also traversed political, economic, infrastructural and intellectual borderlines.
The texts may relate, for example, to different themes (political, cultural, social, foreign affairs and conflicts, health and medicine, law, fashion, leisure, advertising and sports), genres and formats (from handwritten newsletters to professional journalism). In particular, we invite contributions focusing on the translation and intertextuality of news, as well as contextual factors that shaped the domain beyond national and geographical limits.
Different methodological approaches are welcome, including, for example, discourse and content analysis, historical pragmatics, stylistics, sociolinguistics, corpus-assisted discourse analysis, print culture and its effect on language and writing strategies.
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Abstract submission
In order to encourage discussion and debate parallel sessions are avoided. Plenary papers are 45 minutes long with 15 minutes for questions and other papers 20 minutes long with 10 minutes for questions.
Please send your abstracts to wmatylda@amu.edu.pl
https://wmatylda-chined2024.web.amu.edu.pl/home/abstract-submission/