Allusions in the press : an applied linguistic study /
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 all...
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Table of contents; List of tables; 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; 8. Conclusion; 9. Appendix; 10. Notes; 11. List of primary texts; 12. References.