recenze: Lennon, Paul: Allusions in the Press: An Applied Linguistic Study, 2004 (a review)

CHOVANEC, Jan. recenze: Lennon, Paul: Allusions in the Press: An Applied Linguistic Study, 2004 (a review) (Lennon, Paul (2004) Allusions in the Press: An Applied Linguistic Study (a review)). Linguist List. http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-97.: html, 2005, vol. 16, No 97, p. online, 5 pp.

Basic information

• Original name: recenze: Lennon, Paul: Allusions in the Press: An Applied Linguistic Study, 2004 (a review)
• Name in Czech: recenze: Lennon, Paul: Allusions in the Press: An Applied Linguistic Study, 2004
• Authors: CHOVANEC, Jan.
• Edition: Linguist List, http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-97. html, 2005.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 60200 6.2 Languages and Literature
• Country of publisher: United States of America
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords (in Czech): aluze; jazykové funkce; jazyk a média; britská média
• Keywords in English: allusion; language functions; news discourse; British media
• Tags: allusion, British Media, language functions, news discourse
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

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.

Abstract (in Czech)

Princip aluze spočívá v interakci mezi přítomným textem a absentujícím textem, na nějž se nepřímo odkazuje prostřednictvím užívání určitých aktualizačních prostředků. Článek hodnotí přínos recenzované publikace ke studiu mediálního diskurzu (konkrétně jazyka denního tisku), kde využívání analytických kategorií z oblasti tradiční rétoriky a literární teorie není příliš běžné. Hodnocení přínosu je integrováno s funčním pohledem na aluzi v duchu přístupu Michaela Hallidaye.