Click bait: Forward-reference as lure in online news headlines

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 76, Issue , 2015, Pages 87-100

  Blom, Jonas Nygaard ^a   Hansen, Kenneth Reinecke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cataphora; Discourse deixis; Forward reference; Media commercialization; Online news headlines; Tabloidization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920121864     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2014.11.010     Document Type: Article

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