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Investigating Ambiguity in Headlines of Contemporary Yorùbá Newspapers

Osunnuga, Tola

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Tola Osunnuga



Abstract

In this paper, an analysis of form of linguistic ambiguity in the headlines of contemporary Yorùbá newspapers is presented. The paper analyses 100 verbally ambiguous headlines in some newspapers. The focus of the paper is on examples of lexical and structural ambiguity that result in involuntary humour. This is usually contrived by Yorùbá newspaper writer for the sake of entertainment which makes the headlines funny. Therefore, this paper examined some words and expression which are possibly ambiguous in the headlines of contemporary Yorùbà newspapers. The headlines collected in our corpus and analysed were selected precisely because the sources of ambiguity that produced the humorous effect were of a linguistic nature. This is in an attempt to propose a systematic analysis of humorous headlines that have rarely been considered in the Yorùbá literature.

Citation

Osunnuga, T. (2013). Investigating Ambiguity in Headlines of Contemporary Yorùbá Newspapers. Linguistics and literature studies, 1(2), 61-65. https://doi.org/10.13189/lls.2013.010202

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 13, 2013
Publication Date Jan 1, 2013
Deposit Date Nov 4, 2017
Publicly Available Date Nov 4, 2017
Journal Linguistics and Literature Studies
Print ISSN 2331-642X
Electronic ISSN 2331-6438
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 1
Issue 2
Pages 61-65
DOI https://doi.org/10.13189/lls.2013.010202
Related Public URLs http://www.hrpub.org/download/201309/lls.2013.010202.pdf

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