Tola Osunnuga
Investigating Ambiguity in Headlines of Contemporary Yorùbá Newspapers
Osunnuga, Tola
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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.
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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 |
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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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