Pragmatics of Tense and Time in News : From canonical headlines to online news texts.

Pragmatics of Tense and Time in News : From canonical headlines to online news texts.

This book provides the first comprehensive account of temporal deixis in English printed and online news texts. Linking the characteristic usage of tenses with the projection of deictic centres, it notes how conventional tenses, particularly in headlines, are affected by heteroglossia arising from v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chovanec, Jan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. v. 253.
Subjects:
Pragmatics > Data processing.
Mass media and language.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Internet > Social aspects.
Internet > Social aspects
Mass media and language
Mass media > Social aspects
Pragmatics > Data processing
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Summary:This book provides the first comprehensive account of temporal deixis in English printed and online news texts. Linking the characteristic usage of tenses with the projection of deictic centres, it notes how conventional tenses, particularly in headlines, are affected by heteroglossia arising from various accessed voices. The resulting tense shifts are interpreted pragmatically as a conventional reader-oriented strategy that creates the impression of temporal co-presence. It is argued that since different tense choices systematically correlate with the three main textual segments of news texts.
Physical Description:1 online resource (310 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-284) and index.
ISBN:9027269327
9789027256584
9027256586
9789027269324
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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