Allusions in the Press(English, Hardcover, Lennon Paul)

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Allusions in the Press(English, Hardcover, Lennon Paul) is written by Lennon Paul and published by De Gruyter. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110179504 (ISBN 10) and 9783110179507 (ISBN 13).

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 allusions function meaningfully in discourse. It explores the nature of the background cultural and intertextual knowledge allusions demand of readers and sets out the processing stages involved in understanding an allusion. Allusion is integrated into existing theories of indirect language and linked to idioms, word-play and metaphor.