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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454448203321

Autore

Lennon Paul <1951->

Titolo

Allusions in the press [[electronic resource] ] : an applied linguistic study / / by Paul Lennon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2004

ISBN

1-282-19386-4

9786612193866

3-11-019733-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Classificazione

HF 642

Disciplina

031

410

Soggetti

Newspapers - Language

Allusions

Intertextuality

Newspapers - Headlines

Reader-response criticism

Sociolinguistics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-297).

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theories of indirect language comprehension -- 3. Previous work on allusion -- 4. A newspaper corpus of allusions: Initial analysis -- 5. The alluding and target units -- 6. The comprehension of allusions -- 7. The functions of allusion -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

This corpus-based study of allusions in the British press shows the range of targets journalists allude to - from Shakespeare to TV soaps, from Jane Austen to Hillary Clinton, from hymns to nursery rhymes, proverbs and riddles. It analyzes the linguistic forms allusions take and demonstrates how allusions function meaningfully in discourse. It explores the nature of the background cultural and intertextual knowledge allusions demand of readers and sets out the processing stages involved in understanding an allusion. Allusion is integrated into



existing theories of indirect language and linked to idioms, word-play and metaphor.