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 texts -- 3.5 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 pages -- 4.6 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 features.

Non-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 deixis -- 7. 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 -- Other uses of the simple past tense - satellite articles -- 8. Auxiliaries in headlines: Ellipsis and (non)-finiteness -- 8.1 Ellipsis of auxiliaries -- 8.2 Potential ambiguities -- 8.3 Explicit use of auxiliaries -- Accessed voice and reported speech -- Semantic specification -- Foregrounding of major news stories -- 8.4 Complex headlines with subordinate clauses -- 8.5 Concluding remarks on temporal deixis in headlines -- Part III. Textual rhetoric of news texts -- 9. The textuality of news texts -- 9.1 Textual segments: The headline and beyond -- 9.2 Cohesion analysis.

9.3 Information chaining -- 9.4 Process chains -- Non-cohesiveness of the present perfect tense -- 9.5 Double tense shift pattern -- 9.6 Cohesion and the three metafunctions -- Towards a functional model of temporality in process chains -- Variations of the idealized pattern -- 9.7 Patterns of cohesion and co-referentiality in online news texts -- Non-permanence of home page article previews -- The structural template for online news -- 9.8 The double tense shift pattern and its variations -- Example 1. The triple tense pattern -- Example 2. Complex chain involving nominal transformation -- Example 3. Variations on the triple tense pattern -- Example 4. The triple tense pattern as a cohesive structure -- 9.9 Concluding remarks on tense and textuality -- 10. Temporal structure of news reports -- 10.1 Non-chronology and the narrative structure of news stories -- 10.2 Temporal structure of news stories -- 10.3 Modelling the internal structure of news texts -- Thematic structure of news texts -- Conceptual structure of the news story & event frames -- Orbital organization and the interpersonal dimension of news time -- 10.4 Final remarks -- 11. Conclusion -- 11.1 Tense shifts -- 11.2 Temporality and the textual rhetoric of headlines -- 11.3 Temporality and the textual rhetoric of news texts -- 11.4 Temporality in online news -- References -- Index.