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Phraseological substitutions in newspaper headlines : "more than meats the eye" /
The major purpose of newspaper headlines is to trigger the reader's interest. A popular way to achieve this goal is the use of phraseological modifications. Based on previous findings from various linguistic disciplines, this book provides an interdisciplinary approach to shed light on the rece...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2014.
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| Colección: | Human cognitive processing ;
v. 46. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Phraseological Substitutions in Newspaper Headlines; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Phraseological units and their modification; 2.1 Characteristics of phraseological units ; 2.1.1 Polylexicality ; 2.1.2 Fixedness ; 2.1.3 Idiomaticity ; 2.2 Types of phraseological units ; 2.3 Modification ; 2.3.1 Definition, terminology, function ; 2.3.2 Main types of modifications ; 2.3.3 Delineation of modification, variation, and errors.
- Chapter 3. Phraseological modification in newspaper headlines3.1 The newspaper headline as a text type ; 3.2 The popularity of phraseological modification in newspaper headlines ; 3.3 The humorous potential of lexical substitutions ; 3.4 Research background and research question ; 3.5 Material and methods ; Chapter 4. The reception of modified phraseological units in newspaper headlines: An association test; 4.1 The processing of unmodified idioms: evidence from psycholinguistic research ; 4.2 The association experiment: test design.
- 4.3 Influencing factors on the interpretation of modified phraseological units 4.3.1 The reconstruction of the canonical form ; 4.3.2 The influence of the substituens and the substituendum on the associations ; 4.3.3 The influence of the literal/phraseological level ; 4.3.4 The influence of the written context ; 4.3.5 The individuality of the interpretation process ; 4.4 Summary ; Chapter 5. A reception-oriented analysis of the relation between substituens and substituendum; 5.1 Research background ; 5.2 The relation between substituens and substituendum in the database ; 5.2.1 Paronymy.
- 5.2.2 Semantic relations 5.2.3 Purely contextual relations ; 5.3 The influence of the relation between substituens and substituendum on the recognition; 5.4 Recognition experiment ; 5.4.1 Test design ; 5.4.2 Results ; 5.4.3 Discussion ; 5.4.4 The producer's perspective ; 5.5 Summary ; Chapter 6. The meaning of substitutions: an analysis in terms of conceptual blending; 6.1 Traditional models of meaning manipulation with lexical substitutions ; 6.2 A cognitive perspective: Conceptual Integration Theory ; 6.2.1 Presentation of the theory.
- 6.2.2 Blending in modification theory: state of the art and implications for current analysi6.2.3 Analysis of the database with the help of conceptual blending ; 6.2.4 Lexical substitutions and humour ; 6.3 Potential limits of CIT for the analysis of lexical substitutions ; 6.4 Summary ; Chapter 7. A new model of interpretation; 7.1 Insights from research on newspaper text comprehension ; 7.2 A model of interpretation for lexical substitutions ; 7.3 Flexibility for different types of lexical substitutions ; 7.4 Summary ; Chapter 8. Conclusion and outlook; References; Author index.