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Publication details [#56666]
Shie, Jian-Shiung. 2012. Conceptual metaphor as a news-story promoter: The cases of ENL and EIL headlines. Intercultural Pragmatics 9 (1) : 1–21. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study examines the pragmatic roles of conceptual metaphor as news-story promoters and figurative conventionality and cultural specificity variaton in the English-as-a-native-language (ENL) and English-as-an-international-language (EIL) settings of corresponding New York Times (NYT) and Times Supplement (TS) news stories.