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Publication details [#14309]

Kronrod, Ann and Orit Engel. 2001. Accessibility theory and referring expressions in newspaper headlines. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (5) : 683–699.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

An accessibility theoretic study of referring expressions in Israeli daily newspaper headlines. It is found that genre differences do not affect the accessibility scale, while terms such as brevity and curiosity-arousal are found to increase the preference for accessibility markers.