Arts & Humanities Research Council

Seminars

18 January 2012
Zurich, Switzerland
Historical Pragmatics and the Language of Popular Newspapers

Aims & Objectives:

• To bring together scholars, researchers and information professionals to develop interdisciplinary approaches to the study of digital newspaper archives in Britain and North America.
• To investigate representations of popular culture in Anglo-American newspapers over the period 1833 to 1988.
• To develop with colleagues from a range of cognate disciplines a set of agreed principles for a consistent methodology for the investigation of the increasing number of digital archives of newspapers which would extend computer-assisted research in the humanities
• To establish a network of scholars and researchers which can sustain such dialogues beyond the scope of the project by setting up a clear set of publishing outcomes and future collaborations.
• To provide a forum for dissemination of best practice in historical and linguistic research approaches to digital newspaper archives.
• To develop the general area of Historical Pragmatics by a series of sustained and focused investigations into a particular area of media language and social representation; representation of popular culture in newspapers