recenze: Lennon, Paul: Allusions in the Press: An Applied Linguistic Study, 2004 (a review)
| Title in English | Lennon, Paul (2004) Allusions in the Press: An Applied Linguistic Study (a review) |
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| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Linguist List |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | allusion; language functions; news discourse; British media |
| Description | Allusions in the Press is an applied linguistic study of the form, function and usage of echoic allusions carried out on a corpus of non-literary texts: British newspapers. The defining characteristic of allusion is the existence of an "echo" between one unit of language in praesentia (the alluding unit) and another unit in absentia (the target). We are thus dealing with a device which has a primary reference to the present text and a secondary reference to an absent text. Owing to this property, allusion yields a double meaning: "a primary, textual meaning in accord with the context and co-text of the manifest text, and a secondary associational meaning, suggested by the remembered context and co-text of the source text" (p. 5). As such, it is a cover term for a number of language-use phenomena which cannot be described solely with regard to their form. They must also be described with respect to their pragmatic and functional characteristics. |