Victoria Chen

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Skalicky, Stephen and Victoria Chen 2023 Leaving this unsaid: A case study of empty this in North American satirical newspaper headlinesReference: From conventions to pragmatics, Gardelle, Laure, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (eds.), pp. 213–231 | Chapter
We investigated the use of this in a large corpus of headlines gathered from three North American satirical newspapers (The Onion, The Beaverton, and The Babylon Bee). There were 551 instances of this in the corpus, 26 of which were used pronominally but without a clear referent, which we dub… read more