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Языковая игра b газетных заголовkаx
Language play in newspaper headlines

Author(s): Jiři Gazda, Jana Otevřelová
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycytyczne

Summary/Abstract: The article deals in general with the actual problems of language expressivity in contemporary Russian press, particularly with usage of language play in headlines. By language-play is meant a purposeful selection of such lingual instruments which should invoke nontrivial (nonstereotypical) instrument-lingual associations by the reader and attract his attention. On particular lingual material acquired by excerption of electronic medial sources are shown most typical ways of language-play on particular language levels.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 115
  • Page Range: 19-30
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Russian