Allusions in the press : an applied linguistic study /

This corpus-based study of allusions in the British press shows the range of targets journalists allude to - from Shakespeare to TV soaps, from Jane Austen to Hillary Clinton, from hymns to nursery rhymes, proverbs and riddles. It analyzes the linguistic forms allusions take and demonstrates how all...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Lennon, Paul, 1951-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2004.
Subjects:	Newspapers > Language. Allusions. Intertextuality. Newspapers > Headlines. Reader-response criticism. Sociolinguistics.