Allusions in New York times and times supplement news headlines

Discourse and Communication

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-63

  Shie, Jian Shiung ^a  

^a WENZAO URSULINE UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

EIL culture; Headlines; Non lexicalized allusions; The New York Times; The Times Supplement

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551651788     PISSN: 17504813     EISSN: 17504821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750481310390166     Document Type: Article

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