The (un)conventional use of the simple past tense in news headlines
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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.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AI - Linguistics
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
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Publication year
2005
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Patterns. A Festschrift for Libuše Dušková
ISBN
80-7308-108-3
Number of pages of the result
11
Pages from-to
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Number of pages of the book
305
Publisher name
Charles University in Prague
Place of publication
Praha
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