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Construing the News: A Cognitive Grammar Approach to Online Headlines

Karas, Shane Michael
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1554305475795068

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2019, Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, Cognitive Linguistics.
The emergence of online news has significantly influenced news production and consumption. Notably, key characteristics of online news, including immediacy and interactivity, have contributed to a new degree of fluidity; articles are now published, edited, shared, and consumed continuously. This poses considerable challenges as many articles are published while stories are still unfolding and undergo significant changes after publication. Editors have generally resisted calls to annotate these edits, suggesting that they view them as minor. Conversely, Cognitive Grammar holds that small changes to construal – the way a situation is presented – influence meaning. The present thesis explores evolving construals of online news headlines. Through analysis of 28 examples, this thesis argues that even minor edits may alter meaning in significant ways. It also serves as a proof of concept for a novel way of collecting attested examples of evolving construals, demonstrating how the internet may make new types of data obtainable.
Todd Oakley, PhD (Committee Chair)
Vera Tobin, PhD (Committee Member)
Mark Turner, PhD (Committee Member)
50 p.
Communication; Journalism; Linguistics; Mass Communications; Mass Media; Sociolinguistics
profiling; attentional windowing; journalism; online news; cognitive grammar

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  • Karas, S. M. (2019). Construing the News: A Cognitive Grammar Approach to Online Headlines [Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1554305475795068

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Karas, Shane. Construing the News: A Cognitive Grammar Approach to Online Headlines. 2019. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1554305475795068.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Karas, Shane. "Construing the News: A Cognitive Grammar Approach to Online Headlines." Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1554305475795068

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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