Text types in a new medium : the first newspapers (1609)

  • The first printed newspapers in the modern sense of the word appeared in the seventeenth century. They were weekly publications which contained regular reports by correspondents from all over Europe, mainlyon political matters. Although the new medium as such was innovative in its general organization, the individual news items were produced by following text patterns which already had a history of their own. The article reports recent research on the emerging constellation of text types in the first two German newspapers, the Aviso and the Relation of the year 1609. lt is focussed on delineating a prototype-based typology of the relevant text types and on tracing back these forms of presentation of news items to earlier genres and media like chronicles, handwritten newsletters, printed pamphlets and biannual news collections. The general interest of this line of research as a contribution to historical pragmatics lies in the attempt to see historical text types in an evolutionary perspective, taking into account the context of text production and, as far as possible, the reactions of the reading public.

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Author:Gerd Fritz
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1136927
URL:http://www.festschrift-gerd-fritz.de/files/publ_hp/fritz_2001_texttypes.pdf
ISSN:1566-5852
Parent Title (German):Journal of historical pragmatics
Publisher:Benjamins
Place of publication:Amsterdam
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2009/11/10
Year of first Publication:2001
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2009/11/10
GND Keyword:Textlinguistik
Volume:2
Issue:1
Page Number:9
First Page:69
Last Page:83
Source:http://www.festschrift-gerd-fritz.de/files/publ_hp/fritz_2001_texttypes.pdf ; (in:) Journal of historical pragmatics, 2001, 2, S. 69-83
HeBIS-PPN:220365644
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Germanistik / GiNDok
Linguistik
BDSL-Klassifikation:11.00.00 17. Jahrhundert / BDSL-Klassifikation: 11.00.00 17. Jahrhundert > 11.10.00 Gattungen und Formen / BDSL-Klassifikation: 11.00.00 Allgemeine Literaturgeschichte > 11.10.00 Gattungen und Formen > 11.10.08 Publizistik. Flugschriften
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht