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The (un)conventional use of the simple past tense in news headlines

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F05%3A00031182" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/05:00031182 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    The (un)conventional use of the simple past tense in news headlines

  • Original language description

    The paper discusses the usage of tenses in news headlines, with a focus on the functions of the simple past tense. It notes the unmarked use of the present tense to conventionally refer to past events and outlines the possible reasons for its use. The marked occurrence of the simple past tense in headlines is identified as (1) the expression of non-recency of a reported event, (2) the backgrounding of a circumstantial event, (3) the marker of an accessed voice, and (4) the effect of the intertextualityof related articles. The past tense in headlines is interpreted as an effort on the part of the writers to redefine the convention-bound headlines into a more reader-oriented style.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    C - Chapter in a specialist book

  • CEP classification

    AI - Linguistics

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Others

  • Publication year

    2005

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Book/collection name

    Patterns. A Festschrift for Libuše Dušková

  • ISBN

    80-7308-108-3

  • Number of pages of the result

    11

  • Pages from-to

  • Number of pages of the book

    305

  • Publisher name

    Charles University in Prague

  • Place of publication

    Praha

  • UT code for WoS chapter