title: Pragmatic functions of interrogatives in media texts
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metadata.value: Ivanova, Irina N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-01-21T10:47:31Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-01-21T10:47:31Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Ivanova, I. (2020). Pragmatic functions of interrogatives in media texts. Media Linguistics, 7 (4), 501–515.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu22.2020.409
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/22604
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: A number of approaches to media texts tend to apply an interactive model to communication,
  and the texts are seen are intrinsically dialogic, relying on the receivers’ subjective interpretation
  of meaning and activation of intertextual relations. In addition, media texts are
  increasingly used as material for linguistic analysis with the aim to reveal how their linguistic
  potential is utilized by journalists to convey messages and ideas, and influence the audience.
  The paper discusses the pragmatic functions of interrogatives and the way they are realized
  in media text, more specifically in newspaper articles’ headlines, leads and bodies excerpted
  from British and American online media over a period of two months. The analysis is mapped
  against previous research of interrogatives in the field of pragmatics and medialinguistics. The
  main findings show that interrogatives in headlines realize a range of pragmatic roles when
  used on their own or as part of paratactic or hypotactic complexes. These roles are closely dependent
  on their syntactic and semantic features and can range from attracting and focusing
  readers’ attention, to urging readers to think about issues, look for certain types of answers
  in the text, or think of their own answers or reactions. Headlines can be expanded or clarified
  in the sub-headings, lead and main body of the article. In the main body, interrogatives
  help to structure and authenticate writer’s dialogue with the audience, making the narrative
  or argumentation more emphatic, and soliciting active commitment to issues, feedback and
  empathy from the audience. Furthermore, some topics of high public interest and importance
  might lead to an increase in the number of questions in media texts. Further research of larger
  and more varied thematically material might throw light on the way different topics affect the
  frequency and distribution of pragmatic roles of interrogatives in media texts.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Media Linguistics;Volume 7; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: pragmatic functions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: interrogatives
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: headlines
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: media texts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Pragmatic functions of interrogatives in media texts
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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