Newspaper headlines and relevance: Ad hoc concepts in ad hoc contexts

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 699-720

  Ifantidou, Elly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Creative; Informative; Concept broadening narrowing; Lexical adjustment; Radical inference; Underspecified context

Indexed keywords

EID: 60449120126     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.10.016     Document Type: Article

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