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Publication details [#65063]

Skalicky, Stephen. 2018. Lexical priming in humorous satirical newspaper headlines. Humor 31 (4) : 583–602.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | headline | humor | mocking | newspaper report

Language as a subject

English, American

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This inquiry explores whether humorous satirical headlines (here: from the satirical American newspaper The Onion) sap curious linguistic patterns employing the Lexical Priming theory.