In the 18 th and 19 th centuries, newspaper publishing saw a major upsurge: the daily newspaper spread as an alternative to existing weekly newspapers and expanded the scope of available text types. "Newspeak" had considerable influence over the development of the German language. Projects to digitalize newspapers, as presented by this edited volume, help to illuminate this history.

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Oliver Pfefferkorn, Universität Halle; Jörg Riecke, Universität Heidelberg; Britt-Marie Schuster, Universität Paderborn