Emerging journalistic discourse in Spaina proposal for XML-TEI encoding of Early Modern gazettes

Resumen

This paper presents preliminary results obtained by the Research Group on Early Modern Iberian News (IBEMNEWS). This group studies the emergence of journalistic discourse in Spain and Portugal, more precisely, the evolution from occasional news pamphlets to serial and periodic news books. For this purpose, the study analyzes printed news sheets published on the peninsula in the late sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth century. The present study is based on a corpus of news sheets which had been catalogued to date as independent sheets - that is, news pamphlets - published by several printers working in the same city (Seville) and around the same time (the second and third decade of the seventeenth century). The resulting transcript of the corpus was transcribed with an encoding scheme using XML-TEI language, developed by the group IBEMNEWS which we claim to be a valid scheme for analyzing the gazettes of the Modern Age. As a result, the analys is has revealed common features in the design of the cover and regularities in the writing. This leads us to state that, despite their never having been acknowledged to be related, these sheets are part of series of (quasi) periodical news books which pioneered the Iberian news market of the Modern period, while offering the public a new format based on visual continuity, regularity in the structure of the text and standardization in the reporting of news.