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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

Keywords

accessibility | headline | newspaper report | reference

Language as a subject

Hebrew

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

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.