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Publication details [#53386]
Coulson, Seana and Geert Brône. 2010. Processing Deliberate Ambiguity in Newspaper Headlines: Double Grounding. Discourse Processes 47 (3) : 212–236. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This experimental study discusses the processing and estimate of double grounding, a kind of intentional ambiguity often deployed in newspaper headlines, testing the hypothesis that double-grounded metaphors are more cognitively exigent than comparable single-grounded metaphors.