Pragmatic Imediaticity and Use of the Present of the Indicative in Journalistic Headlines and Subtitles
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https://doi.org/10.5752/P.2358-3428.2020v24n51p265-292Keywords:
Journalistic headline. Subtitle. Present of the Indicative. Conceptual structure. Speech Act.Abstract
This paper examines the use of the Present of the Indicative in headlines and subtitles of Brazilian online newspapers. The analysis is based on Cognitive Grammar, and aims at investigating the cognitive underpinnings for using the Present of the Indicative to refer to past events, contrasting it with uses of past tense. The investigation draws on the notion of epistemic imediaticity, associated to the present simple in English (LANGACKER, 2001, 2009), and expands it by proposing the notion of pragmatic imediaticity, related to the performance of the speech act of reporting. The results show that the Present of the Indicative predominates in headlines, and that the most frequent temporal combination is HEADLINE (Present of the Indicative) – SUBTITLE (Past).
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