A stratified corpus of headlines from the Economist magazine provides the data for an analysis of the culturally-bounded pragmatic functioning of humour, or playful language, in semi-specialized publications. Extensive linguistic analysis into semantic and semantico-grammatical systems, semiotic referencing, metaphorical networking, and textual structure allows us to see how the meaning gap is filled and how the dialogic language game is consequently enacted. The study illustrates the nature of inter-discursivity, intertextuality and the processes of pragmatic or procedural competence.

Lightening the Dismal Science: the pragmatic role of the headlines in The Economist magazine / Bowker, Janet. - In: TEXTUS. - ISSN 1824-3967. - STAMPA. - XXI/1:(2008), pp. 167-186.

Lightening the Dismal Science: the pragmatic role of the headlines in The Economist magazine

BOWKER, Janet
2008

Abstract

A stratified corpus of headlines from the Economist magazine provides the data for an analysis of the culturally-bounded pragmatic functioning of humour, or playful language, in semi-specialized publications. Extensive linguistic analysis into semantic and semantico-grammatical systems, semiotic referencing, metaphorical networking, and textual structure allows us to see how the meaning gap is filled and how the dialogic language game is consequently enacted. The study illustrates the nature of inter-discursivity, intertextuality and the processes of pragmatic or procedural competence.
2008
media discourse analysis; semi-specialized magazines; headline language; humour; interdiscursivity; rhetorical and semantic networks; the Dialogic Language Game
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Lightening the Dismal Science: the pragmatic role of the headlines in The Economist magazine / Bowker, Janet. - In: TEXTUS. - ISSN 1824-3967. - STAMPA. - XXI/1:(2008), pp. 167-186.
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