Acknowledgements \ List of Abbreviations \ Introduction \ Part I: Socio-Stylistic Dimensions \ 1. Historical Corpus Stylistics and Early News Media \ 2. Media Performance and Organization Profiles \ 3. Media Variation and Stylistic Change \ 4. Performance and Style: A Socio-Stylistic Profile \ Part II: Technologically Facilitated Innovation \ 5. Visual Foregrounding in Early Eighteenth-Century Headlines \ 6. Syntactic Foregrounding in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century News Discourse \ Part III: Situational Aspects: News Context and Early Media Change \ 7.Macrotextual Foregrounding Strategies in Eighteenth-Century News Discourse \ 8. Microtextual Foregrounding Strategies: Comment and News Context \ Conclusion \ References \ Appendices I-III \ Index