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Group publication title:

Token

Contributor:

Newman, John G. Ed.  ; Dossena, Marina. Ed.  ; Samson, Christina. Guest Ed.  ; Cecconi, Elisabetta. Guest Ed. Martini, Isabella. Guest. Ed.

Abstract:

This paper examines features of propaganda discourse in a corpus of 17th-century English pamphlets about the settlement in Jamaica (PonJ_corpus) from 1655 to 1700. Drawing upon Taylor’s definition of propaganda as “the deliberate attempt to persuade people to think or behave in a desired way” (2003: 12), the study investigates how pamphlets were crafted to encourage migration to the new colony. By analysing discourse strategies that highlight the colony’s economic potential, this paper combines corpus-based methods with discourse analysis, interpreting quantitative data within the socio-political context of the time. The findings demonstrate how collocational patterns surrounding key terms contribute to the ‘spin’ of the message, aiming to shape readers’ perceptions and behaviours toward migration.

Table of contents:

5 Dedicatoria
9 Tabula gratulatoria
11 Elisabetta Cecconi, Christina Samson and Isabella Martini, Introduction
45 Letizia Vezzosi, The propagandistic narrative in Saint Erkenwald
69 Elisabetta Cecconi, Propaganda in 17th-century pamphlets on Jamaica: A corpus-assisted discourse study (1655-1700)
95 Elisabetta Lonati, Language ideology and national propaganda in 18th-century British dictionaries of arts and sciences
125 Massimo Sturiale, Elocution, editorials, and Englishness: The role of print media in shaping accent attitudes in the long nineteenth century
147 Christina Samson, Fanning fires. A corpus assisted analysis of women’s letters during the 1857-58 Indian uprisings
171 Matylda Włodarczyk, The bluestocking in the Polish press (1830s-1890s): Othering women through code-switching, borrowing and loan translations
201 Gabriella Del Lungo and Sabrina Cappelli, Propaganda discourse in an imperial setting: The case of Lytton Strachey’s Queen Victoria
233 DavideMazzi, “The mask is off at last!”: Propaganda discourse in the Irish Civil War
253 BirteBös, Propaganda in TIME Magazine – A diachronic corpus-assisted discourse study
281 Roberta Facchinetti, Striking a balance between norms of impartiality and adversarialness in broadcast interviews
299 Marina Bondi, Jessica Jane Nocella, Roberto Paganelli, Vaccines discourse: A diachronic case study
325 Isabel Ermida, Ageist propaganda on social media: Disguising hate speech through mock politeness

Place of publishing:

Kielce

Physical description:

s. 69-94

ISSN:

2299-5900

Publisher:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach

Date issued:

2025

Identifier:

doi:10.25951/14393

Language:

angielski

Is part of:

Token : A Journal of English Linguistics

Has part:

vol. 18

Type:

tekst

Access rights:

otwarty dostęp

Format:

application/pdf