Allusions in the Press: An Applied Linguistic StudyThis 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. |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 Theories of indirect language comprehension | 23 |
3 Previous work on allusion | 61 |
Initial analysis | 89 |
5 The alluding and target units | 147 |
6 The comprehension of allusions | 193 |
7 The functions of allusion | 235 |
8 Conclusion | 265 |
9 Appendix | 269 |
10 Notes | 271 |
11 List of primary texts | 274 |
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absentia allu alluding unit Allusion to formulaic Allusion to names Allusion to proverbs Allusion to quotations Allusion to set Allusion to titles ambiguity body of texts capitalised name Context corpus Daily Express Daily Mail Daily Mirror Daily Telegraph Dictionary of English Dictionary of Quotations discourse domain domain Function Example film Ford Fiesta foregrounding formulaic text frequency of occurrence function Glucksberg Grice Guardian headline idiom implicature implies indirect inferencing intertextual involves irony Jarvis Cocker k.d. lang Kintsch lexical item lexical substitution lexicalised linguistic literal meaning literary manifest text metaphor naming phrases newspaper text noun phrase occur onomastic onomastic allusion Oxford Concise Dictionary Oxford Dictionary phonological photo caption phrasal polysemy populars praesentia pragmatic processing proverb punning qualities reader sections semantic shift sense set phrase sion song source text speaker speech sub-headline syntactic syntagma Table tabloids target class target unit tion triggered verbatim Wilss word word-play writer