TY - BOOK ID - 77815679 TI - Pragmatics of tense and time in news : from canonical headlines to online news texts PY - 2014 SN - 9789027256584 9027256586 1322317372 9027269327 PB - Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, DB - UniCat KW - Pragmatics KW - 82:659.3 KW - 519.76 KW - 801.56 KW - Mass media and language. KW - Mass media KW - Speech acts (Linguistics) KW - Internet KW - Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) KW - Speech act theory (Linguistics) KW - Speech events (Linguistics) KW - Language and languages KW - Linguistics KW - Speech KW - 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek KW - Syntaxis. Semantiek KW - Language and mass media KW - 519.76 Semiotics. Mathematical theory of systems of symbols. Mathematical linguistics KW - Semiotics. Mathematical theory of systems of symbols. Mathematical linguistics KW - 82:659.3 Literatuur en massacommunicatie KW - Literatuur en massacommunicatie KW - Pragmalinguistics KW - General semantics KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Semantics (Philosophy) KW - Data processing. KW - Social aspects. KW - Philosophy KW - Mass communications KW - Mathematical linguistics KW - Mass media and language KW - Data processing KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77815679 AB - This book provides the first comprehensive account of temporal deixis in English printed and online news texts. Linking the characteristic usage of tenses with the projection of deictic centres, it notes how conventional tenses, particularly in headlines, are affected by heteroglossia arising from various accessed voices. The resulting tense shifts are interpreted pragmatically as a conventional reader-oriented strategy that creates the impression of temporal co-presence. It is argued that since different tense choices systematically correlate with the three main textual segments of news texts ER -