Pragmatics of Tense and Time in News : From canonical headlines to online news texts.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Pragmatics of Tense and Time in News; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; List of tables and figures; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Goals and objectives; 1.2 Approach; 1.3 Data; 1.4 Overview of chapters; Part I. Temporal deixis in print and online news; 2. Theoretical foundations; 2.1 Pragmatics; 2.2 Functionalism and Halliday's metafunctions; 2.3 Heteroglossia; 2.4 News discourse analysis; 3. Temporal deixis and news discourse; 3.1 Deixis and interaction; 3.2 Deictic centre; 3.3 Deictic projection.

3.4 Deictic projection in news texts3.5 Time adverbials and shared temporal context; 3.6 Deictic and non-deictic time expressions; 3.7 Time expressions in news texts; 3.8 Deictic centres in print newspapers; 3.9 Pre-emptiveness of deictic time adverbials; 3.10 Modelling deictic projection in news texts; 3.11 Temporal deixis and tenses; 4. Temporal deixis in online newspapers; 4.1 Hypertextuality and the double textual level of online news; 4.2 Temporal anchorage points in online newspapers; 4.3 Temporal anchorage on the home page; 4.4 Temporal anchorage in article previews.

4.5 Temporal anchorage on article web pages4.6 Hypertextuality and temporal mapping in online articles; 4.7 Temporal deixis and internal hyperlinks; Part II. Textual rhetoric of headlines; 5. Temporal deixis in headlines; 5.1 Material for analysis; 5.2 Headlines and the expression of time; 5.3 Adverbials of time in headlines; Absence of adverbials of time from headlines; Presence of adverbials of time in headlines; 5.4 Expressing the setting and location of the story; 5.5 Verbal tenses in headlines; 5.6 Tense in headlines in the data; 5.7 Headline conventions; Grammatical features.

Lexical featuresNon-linguistic features; 6. The present tense in headlines; 6.1 The defaultness of the present tense in news headlines; 6.2 Deictic and non-deictic tense; 6.3 Present time reference of the simple present tense; State present; Habitual present; Instantaneous present; 6.4 Past-time reference of the simple present tense; Semantics of the past-time reference of the present tense; Historic present; Tense as an evaluation device; Deictic centre projection; 6.5 Future time reference of the simple present tense; 6.6 Potential ambiguity of the simple present tense in headlines.

Manipulation of temporal deixis7. Other tenses in headlines; 7.1 Expressing futurity; To-future; Modal auxiliaries; Will-future; Lexically expressed future; 7.2 The present perfect; Headlines marking trends and changes; Heteroglossic headlines; Dual headlines; 7.3 The simple past tense: From heteroglossia to information flow management; The past tense in the non-authorial accessed voice; The past tense in the paper's authorial voice; The past tense as a marker of non-recency; The past tense, subordination and information flow; The past tense as a marker of accessed voice.

Other uses of the simple past tense -- the non-factive presupposition.

This book provides the first comprehensive account of temporal deixis in English printed and online news texts. Linking the characteristic usage of tenses with the projection of deictic centres, it notes how conventional tenses, particularly in headlines, are affected by heteroglossia arising from various accessed voices. The resulting tense shifts are interpreted pragmatically as a conventional reader-oriented strategy that creates the impression of temporal co-presence. It is argued that since different tense choices systematically correlate with the three main textual segments of news texts.

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