CHINED IV – Final programme
All sessions in Metsätalo, 3rd floor, lecture hall 6
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Thursday, 5 June
13.30- | Registration (Metsätalo 3rd floor, in front of lecture hall 6) | |
14.10-14.15 | Welcome & conference opening | |
14.15-16.15 | Nicholas Brownlees (University of Florence) |
“Advertisement Extraordinary”: Features and functions of parody advertising in the 18th-century British press |
Howard Sklar and Irma Taavitsainen (University of Helsinki) |
A modest proposal in The Gentleman’s Magazine: Making sense of a peculiar 18th-century advertisement | |
Anna Stermieri (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) |
Exploiting humour meanings in the expression of personal stance: The case of newspaper theatre criticism in the 19th century | |
Isabel Ermida (University of Minho) |
Newspaper funnies at the dawn of modernity: Multimodal humour in early American comic strips | |
16.15-16.45 | Coffee/Tea | |
16.45-17.45 | Birte Bös (University of Duisburg-Essen) | Of hopes and struggles – newsmakers’ metadiscourse at the dawn of the newspaper age |
18.00-20.00 | Reception by the University of Helsinki, Metsätalo 5th floor |
Friday, 6 June
9.15-10.45 | Ying Wang (Uppsala University) |
A corpus-based analysis of lexical bundles in 19th-century news editorials |
Samuli Kaislaniemi (University of Helsinki) |
“Litle newes I heare worth the writing”: Introducing news in Early Modern English letters | |
Brian Walker (University of Huddersfield) |
Discourse presentation in Early Modern English print news | |
10.45-11.15 | Coffee/Tea | |
11.15-12.45 | Karoliina Laitinen (University of Helsinki) |
More immigrants, more negativity? – Comparison of the use of numbers in immigration discourse in 1847 and 2007 |
John M. Ryan (University of Northern Colorado) |
Astride two worlds: The struggle between cultural preservation and assimilation, and the evolution of an integrated Italian-American identity in the Massachusetts immigrant press | |
Minna Nevala (University of Helsinki) |
The public identity of Jack the Ripper in 19th-century newspapers | |
12.45-14.15 | Lunch | |
14.15-15.15 | Jan Chovanec (Masaryk University) |
Announcements of sports matches in The Times in the 1860s |
Taru Nordlund and Ritva Pallaskallio (University of Helsinki) |
Letters, announcements, edicts, broadsheets – the shift of discourses in 19th-century Finnish newspapers | |
15.15-15.45 | Coffee/Tea | |
15.45-16.45 | Martin Conboy (University of Sheffield) |
British popular newspaper traditions: From the 19th century to the first tabloid |
18-19 | Reception by the City of Helsinki, Bock House, Senate Square |
Saturday, 7 June
9.15-10.45 | Carla Suhr (University of Turku) |
We now turn to processing popular news pamphlets |
Jorge Pedro Sousa, Elsa Simões Lucas Freitas, and Sandra Gonçalves Tuna (Fernando Pessoa University) |
Diffusing political knowledge in illustrated magazines: A comparison between the Portuguese O Panorama and the British The Penny Magazine in the 1837-1844 period | |
Claudia Claridge (University of Duisburg-Essen) |
Writing for the working class: The Poor Man’s Guardian | |
10.45-11.15 | Coffee/Tea | |
11.15-12.45 | Elisabetta Cecconi (University of Florence) |
Religious lexis and political ideology in Mercurius Aulicus and Mercurius Britanicus: Evidence from the FEEN corpus |
Ellen Valle (University of Turku) |
”A most rebellious, wicked, sinful, hardhearted people”: Rhetorical strategies in three debates over the position of the Jews in a civil society | |
Maija Stenvall (University of Helsinki) |
Narrative vs. ‘objective’ style – comparing news (agency) reports on the Siedlce Pogrom, September 1906 | |
12.45-14.00 | Lunch | |
14.00-14.30 | Andreas H. Jucker and Daniela Landert (University of Zurich) |
Historical pragmatics and early speech recordings – Diachronic developments in turn-taking and narrative structure in radio talk shows |
14.30-15.30 | Roberta Facchinetti (University of Verona) |
The birth and development of multimodality in news reporting |
15.30-16.00 | Discussion | |
16.00-16.15 | Conference closing | |
18.00-19.00 | Sightseeing + transport to conference dinner (bus pickup at the Senate Square) | |
19.00- | Conference dinner, Restaurant Blue Peter |