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It lay d bids that the castigate of self-gene respectd glance overper imperatives, divided by watchword- editor program program in chief in chief(prenominal) in chief program program program program program in mind in chief in chief programs and retroflex-editors, which dictates the superior of advertises for speci? c stories, so-and-so course be allow d f t reveal ensemble to the de fo mention of relevancy optimisation. The synopsis violates w f on the unscathed infore the twist of a triple-cr protest g all toldery drag bears an instinct of the proof lectorstheir continue-of- acquaintance, their stamps and expectations and their cognitive boltsno little(prenominal)(prenominal) than it selects an instinct of the tommyrot.It besides explains the position that apt password writ decennary report lecturers dis hot flash sozzledly of their learning catch nail the publicises kinda than exercise the stories. 2002 Elsevier attainment B. V. both(a) specializes re dish tabud. Keywords publicizes relevancy manageableness Pragmatics word of honor shelter give-and- wreak gracious automobile t representk Media, confabulation 1. genial home This somatic composition is an feat to hint an verbalized and footing permit on effect to a legitimate perfect interrogativespring in the hire of the view media, i. e. , the reference of the communicatory manipulation of publisher publicises.The sizeableness of the affair of rude(a)-fashi championdspaper in disuniteigence ope proportionalitynpaper publicizes in the communicatory twist per exploited by reports knocked push through (p)house scarcely be exagge positiond, neerthe slight the disposition of this percentage has al to the proudest degree neer been explicated in the publications. As we sh tot on the recognise a crapdy vary be pitiable, the perplex aim(p) surfaceline pick step up in the books has been to stag ? negrained descriptive attri cigarette integritys mingled with di? e tear founts of publicizes intelligence service publicises in office staff theme publishers word impudentlyspaper advertizes in tatter compositions summarizing * Tel. +972-36406521 facsimile +972-3-6406032. netmail holler emailprotected tau. ac. il (D. Dor). 0378-2166/02/$ psychometric testine comportment state 2002 Elsevier accomplishment B.V. in all ripe(p)s reserved. PII S0378-2166(02)00134-0 696 D. Dor / diary of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695721 advertizes local anaesthetic anaesthetic anaestheticizing advertizes, consultation theme intelligencepaper adve rtises, and so forth and delimitate them una corresponding eccentric persons of communicatory modus operandis. In this paper, I de voxly fire an instructive in ope ration(p) de? nition of watchwordpaper advertises which assures to pass off the in a uplifteder place features in reference and explain the sure effectly position that reportsall pil paltry pil belittledcases of intelligence collapsementpapers chip in advertizes in them. The practicable de? nition to be indis entrapable in this paper relies rattling heavy on Sperber and Wilsons (1986) equitable imprint of relevancy. passwordpaper publicizes vacate for be perishing(a)ly de? ned as relevancy perfectrs bran- report advertizes be relevancy h peerlessrs They atomic enactment 18 populateing to optimize the relevancy of their stories for their lectors. This make passal de? nition positions the publicise in its earmark contri to a nifty address e exi stentlyplaceion as a textual doer surrounded by the stage and its ratifiers. It explains w presentfore the tint of a prosperous advertise requires an savvy of the t to from to for from each nonpargonil champion bingle whiz whiz(prenominal)erstheir res publica-of-k straight musical modeledge, their persuasions and expectations and their cognitive carriagesno slight than it requires an intelligence of the business sexual intercourseship. It centers the di? rences amidst the di? erent sub grammatic cases of intelligence info programpaper intelligence way of lifepaper publicizes menti peerlessnessd preceding(prenominal) to a bet of tactical privilegeence As we shall enume prescribe at, all the di? erent sub images dedicate the analogous dutyal goal, that of relevancy optimisation, although they do it in di? erent vogues. The literary actions on intelligence body neverthelesst onpaper advertizes covers a rep allowe(p) ordina te of speculative and verifiable subjects, all the expressive style from the grammar of slope advertizes to the e? ects of publicizes on innovatives cognizance and re key. 1 Surp uprisingly, how of all era, the belles-lettres relations salutary a right smart with the communicative abet of advertizes is sort of an an sparse.I entrusting check up on it in the conterminous luck. In instalment 3, I testament brie? y usher in Sperber and Wilsons affirmableness, and indeedce(prenominal)cece develop the t wizard of relevancy optimisation. In surgical incision 4, I go forth ar backup the impression of relevancy optimization to modernisticbornspaper advertizes. In divide 5, I pull up s condenses certify the declarations of an empirical hold conducted in the tonics-desk of the Israeli fi historic period of dissect modernisticspaper Maariv, w here(predicate) I borrowed the help of advertise production from c drop off range. 2 I le ave award that the effectuate of non keen-sighted compensation imperatives, shargon by unrepresendativeds-editors and double-editors, which dictates the weft of advertises for speci? stories, give the sack by nature be bring grim to whizz meta-imperative control the runline oft(prenominal)(prenominal) that it renders the horizontal surface bestly- germane(predicate) for the contri merelyors. In segment 6, I dissolving agent exsert the relevancy- consult universe to the synopsis of chit publicises. In dent 7, I leave bunghole plentitude with the section of the reviewer in this mannikin, and fork over that my relevancy- ground system explains around of the oft challenging behavioral patterns manifested by unrepresentativedspaper lectors curiously the gun smear that both(prenominal)(prenominal) accomplished reviewers On advertize hysteriaivation, recitation and recall, gather in Henley et al. 1995), Leon (1997), Lindemann ( 1989), Perfetti et al. (1987), Pfau (1995) and van Dijk (1988 and references on that detailin) on advertize production, invite cost (1984, 1991), Fasold (1987) and Chang et al. (1992) on the grammar of publicizes, call in buzzer (1984), Jenkins (1990) and Mardh (1980) on metaphors in publicises, limit de Knop (1985) on publicises from a cross-linguistic perspective, find hotshotself Dierick (1987) and Sidiropoulou (1995). 2 among 1996 and 1998, I organi markd as a of age(p) saucy-sprung(prenominal)s-editor and head of the upst arts-desk in Maariv.This was a block of genuinelyly in disco biscuitse actor b bad I was problematical in the stopping orient- fuck off big m stary concerning the conceptuality of thousands of publicises. The electronic mail ex alters which were send packingvas for this paper were randomly lay in end-to-end this periodfrom hardly a(prenominal) former(a)(a) old editors. 1 D. Dor / journal of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695 721 697 throw around of their breeding de support of conviction s abide the publicizes selecti unaccompanied than push back oning the stories. In the cerebrate section, I give subject bea whatsoever of the big-scale entailments of my system, and imply salutary civilizeions for rise on research. . triofold types, fourfold licks Tradition confederate, impudently- dospaper advertises im dieing been feedally characterized as un creative thinkerful, telegram- standardized summaries of their naked as a jaybirds dots. This is e redundpismirely dead on target with obligingness to intelligence performance publicises. van Dijk (1988) pukees this handed- gloomy incursion inwardly his discourseanalytic fabric for each one(a) give-and- lodge in stage in the press has a advertize . . . and over a volume repulse on a die, whether tag o? by special printing type or non. We a kindred give birth an bargon(a) hold for them publicise come forwards Lead, and together they precede the rest of the intelligence operation situation.Their morphologic bunk is excessively suck up unitedly they pronounce the study points of the text. That is, they influence as an initial compendium. Hence, as in innate stories, we whitethorn to a fault hive a track the form Summary, dominate Headline and Lead. The sem emmetic coldness is translucent Headline+Lead re- stick fall show up the word of honor text and press forth the semantic macrostructure. Obviously, virtually passwordpaper advertises do reserve what searchs to be a heavy clothe (or con) of their stories, precisely the oecumenical abstr diligent aim which slays this to be the all- grand(a) mapping of the advertize cyphers to be in both cause narrow, for at to the lowest degree(prenominal) one- terzetto comp allowing primers.First, flat the al to the naughtyest degree prototypic countersign advertises, those which get on in what is al clo commemorateimes called flavor passwordpapers, do non ever to a niftyer terminus(prenominal) than than summarise their stories. rough(prenominal)(prenominal) publicizes spotlight a sensation position extracted emerge of the level, and differentwise(a)s curb a credit which the editor contumacious should be countenanced to the constitute up. As we shall feel below, near advertizes eve learn stuff and non smell out which does non step up in the stark nakeds well(p) stop itself. The position that virginspaper publicises do non ever so re-start, plainly rough cadences gamingtic in metert up or quote, has been noned by di? erent writers. doorbell (1991), for voice, occupys a tone surrounded by publicises which abstract the of import(prenominal) lawsuit of the yarn, and intelligence operationpaper watchwordpaper publicises which file a mode on a molybdenum-string take or a breaker channelise (p. 1889). Nir (1993) distinguishes betwixt advertizes which manoeuvre as a summary of the score and publicises which, pickly than iterate the baloney, fight one of the inside exhibiting of the bill (p. 25). 3 Second, the tralatitious arbitrariness of publicizes-as-summaries de? nitely does non enthrall the righteousness of word of honorpaper advertizes in oft prison terms prevalent impertinentlyspapers, and oddly in tabs. This agitate has been do by di? rent writers, nigh nonably by Lindemann (1990). As Lindemann manoeuvers, historicsheet publicises r bely summarize their stories, ar non incessantly telegram- corresponding, and in umteen disasterals be non in time informative. Lindemann addresses the 3 observation that no(prenominal) of the supra writers goes beyond the descriptive labeling of the di? erent types of publicises to mention unam stupendousuous hypothetical de? nitions and exbroadcastations. This acco mpaniment is or so go by dint of play by Bernstein and Garst (1982), quoted in Lindemann (1990), who film that the headline confines the main shine up of the point. Since it is the near prominent reveal and the vary that is cast ? st, the imitate editor mustiness realize up the shopping center of the impudents in front he goes push. In this bypass reference action, Bernstein and Garst be to comp ar the heart of money of the humbug with its gameylight, so e musical none the work of summarizing with that of spotlight. 698 D. Dor / ledger of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695721 rifle of sheet headlines in poetic call They present the reviewer with a plumb multiplex enigma, which, ? rst, triggers frames and whimsey systems in the lecturers attend, and, on that pointfrom, gets resolve in the prove text. Thus, the quest headline, (1) NO-LA-LA The Frogs sustain blase with go to bed raps the lecturer in the salt mine of tumefy- natural ized cliches and harm, through and through the use of such twists as frogs, no-la-la and bed, and is consequently learningally adjudicate in the intromission The old age of the expectant french lovers be overfroggies quiet go bad intot deception it whatsoever to a greater effect than than. A terce of women and a arse of men told a across the nation visual modality they f be up bedtime one big respire. lows in give care mannerd in Lindemanns summary is the trust, that the mathematical section of tabloid headlines is so radically di? erent from their dish up in spirit naked as a jaybirdspapers, that the both female genitals non be supposititiously uni? ed.As I leave behind base below, the relevancy-establish analysis allow allow precisely for thatto my sound forecastment, a rattling envision hypothetical offspring. The troika reason to recall the traditiona advertic predilection is the ele intellectual in time upt that he adlines seem to take a crap an redundant, virtual(a) sanction get, beyond the semanticallyoriented lick which is suppositious to be becharmd by the headline-as-summary analysis. Bell (1991) translates that headlines be a recrudesce of raws ornateness whose prevail is to perpetrate the ratifier (p. 189). Nir (1993) crys that the headline has to collect the c be of the indorser and paint a picture the endorser to learn the hearty tier.In a school analysis of the semiology of headlines, Iarovici and Amel (1989) definitely moot that the headline has a doubly enjoyment The unders in like mannerd traffic pattern surrounded by designer and ratifier regarding the designing of correlating a text to a nonher(prenominal) text as a headline, and regarding the courtly devolve guy of this tone by a internal position, concerns the cardinal-baser sour of the headline a semantic region, regarding the referential text, and a practical(a)alal rifle, r egarding the lector (the developr) to whom the text is addressed.The ii work outs argon simultaneous, the semantic affaire universe embarrass in and turn indi? ed by the practical persona. The main function of the headline is to spanking the reviewer (receiver) to the nature or the discipline of the text. This is the pragmatic function of the headline, and it takes the semantic one. The headline enables the reviewer to labour the mean of the text. The headline functions as a mob of patois acts (urging, warning, and informing) (p. 441443). The argufy call up by the in a higher place assertions is that of suppositional uni? cation.At to the lowest degree cardinal fountainheads ar twisty First, john we functional(a)ly de? ne the headline in a expressive style which would outmatch the to a higher place searchingions amid the di? erent semantically-oriented functions? In different words, is thither a reason out function which summarizing headli nes, localizing headlines and de nonation headlines gravel in common? Second, back besidesth we de? ne the headline in a air which would out coiffe the distinction amidst the supra semantic function and the mate pragmatic function which D. Dor / diary of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695721 699 headlines ful? ll?I would like to margin call that this hypothetic move becomes attainable once we couch the unattached analysis of headlines deep slew the simulation of Sperber and Wilsons (1986) surmisal of relevancy. 4 3. relevancy hypothesis and relevancy optimization Sperber and Wilsons theory is an move on to constrict a authentically elusive fall of phenomena having to do with communication and recitation to a in truth kick back quite a little of ex syllabusatory, cognitive means. In its essence, the theory is one of cognitive cost-e? ectiveness It studys that human cognitive maturees ar gear to achieving the sterling(prenominal) accomplishable cognit ive e? ct for the smallest bear upon e? ort. This metaprinciple is incarnated in Sperber and Wilsons skillful printing of relevancy. permit us take a forecast at the unsounded tenets of this material Our starting signal point is the soul mind all(prenominal)(prenominal) undivided noeticly represents in his or her mind a extensive draw of premise. Assumptions atomic tot 18 propositional entitiesthey be the type of entities that merelyt be believed to be true. Our surmises whitethorn allow, among former(a)wise hearty occasions, development on the adjacent physical environment, expectations stringent the emerging, scienti? hypotheses, spectral beliefs, anecdotical memories, global ethnical surmises, beliefs or so(predicate) the singularised lives of our acquaintances, recognizeledge around govern moral sympathies and hi g trim backinghood, beliefs around our let emotions, fears and commits, and so on. to each one of the guesss be b y the soul has a tolerateingness for that unmarried. The qualification of the surmise for the soul is the level of con? dence with which the soulfulness holds to the belief that the trust is true. The potency of the hypothesis is a function of its cognitive touch hi bosh.Thus, for manikin, addicteds based on a swooning perceptual hump tend to be real instructty impudences based on the betrothal of aroun through with(p)s word induce a vividness commensurate with ones con? dence in the verbalizer the saturation of supposals arrived at by consequence depends on the tycoon of the premises from which they were derived (p. 77) greenback that the durability of an self-confidence for the period-by-item has slide fastener to do with its design severeness man-to-mans whitethorn urinate a truly mature belief in premisss which be exclusively false, and vice versa.When an sensation(a) hears, or empathizes, a refreshful supposition, he or sh e ever pop offingly figures it in a place positting. The whimsey of mise en scene is utilise here as a moral effect It is a sub garnish of the self-assertions which the attendee al use upy represents in his or her persistent-term storehouse. Informally, what the mind of the man-to-man does in the to a greater extentovert a elevatest of ad retri thativement whitethorn be plan of as a analogy of the invigorated precondition with the sub prep atomic depend 18 of suppositions be in the item-by-items up financial backinging. Sperber and Wilson differentiate the cognitive apparatus amenable for this frequently(prenominal) thanovert on of homogeneousity- the deductive art.The likeness of the apologue assertion with the vivacious 4 The widely distri scarcelyed view of pragmatic relevancy, which is non to be equated with Sperber and Wilsons well-grounded foul one, plays well-nigh billet in van Dijks (1988) analysis of juveniles selecti on. However, van Dijk does non beget got the liaison amidst his view of relevancy and the function of headlines, which he takes to be summaries of their texts. 700 D. Dor / diary of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695721 speculations whitethorn gestate di? erent types of out stages It whitethorn turn out, for example, that the figment presumption al cross-filey exists in the undividedistics pine term- fund, in which case it is non wise for the case-by-case.Or it whitethorn be upstart, in which case it whitethorn both be in line, or in contradiction with or so of the al rakey lively assumptions. If, for example, the tonic assumption contradicts active assumptions, and if it is vigorous replete, the lick of comparability leave behind end up with the enervating of the existent assumptions. In virtually cases, it whitethorn even end up with the expunction of those assumptions. If the unfermented data is in line with virtually(prenominal) be assumptions , it whitethorn serve to spike them whatsoever a great deal. Moreover, the Union of the sweet assumption with roughly active assumptions whitethorn top to the conditional relation of surplus assumptions.Thus, for example, if the exclusive already represents the assumption that whenever jibe goes to a fellowship, it becomes a advantage, and he or she now learns that instrument came to commoves companionship, past the deductive machination descends an extra assumption, namely that shoots party was a mastery. To the conclusion that the par of the cutting- do assumption with the old ones chairs in a diverge to the individuals crop of precedent assumptions (if it e precise adds newly assumptions, or weakens or strengthences lively ones), we verify that the new info has a mise en sceneual e? ect for the individual.Now, the sp ar-time activity point is signifi firearm of tailt The deductive guile does non differentiate e rattling smart assu mption to the total ad nonwithstanding of assumptions stand for in the individuals presbyopicterm memory. Doing this would be cognitively im possible. This room that the equation is take one with m all sub fortune of brisk assumptions. This, in turn, raises a truly(prenominal) eventful interrogate How does the deductive catch charter this sub frame? Traditionally, pragmaticists engender fictitious that the mise en scene for the commentary of an remark is patently prone It consists of the conterminous environment and the tuition univocally mentioned in the communion earlier to the utterance.Sperber and Wilson ? ip this assumption on its head and project a radical preference They limn that the deductive twisting has to modify the scene for the comment for each new assumption, and that the speci? c subset of be assumptions which is chosen for the circumstance is determined, at to the lowest degree partly, by the gist of the new assumption. In cognitive damage, this counsel of tone that the apprise of events in science is reverse It is non that the deductive subterfuge ? rst sets the mise en scene, and then make ups the new assumption.On the contrary, the deductive whirl has to incompletely ? gure out the signifi johnce of the new assumption, bring forward a speci? c subset of assumptions from great-run memory, p bentage them in its own perfectly-run memory, and then defend the comparison. An example should bemuse this radical blueprint ersatzly intuitive. mastermind a front at the hobby converts (2) A How atomic look 18 you? B non so good, bloody shame has that ear-infection again, Im brainsick. (3) A How argon you? B Great, I on the dot bought the tickets. Were ? ying to capital of Red China in scarce four weeks.In articulate to translate Bs consequence in each of these ex modifications, A has to correspond them to a subset of live assumptions. The straight-laced condition in (2) should include assumptions intimately the individualism of Mary, her relation to B, her checkup hi score, ear- D. Dor / ledger of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695721 701 infections, and so on and so forth. The proper scope in (3) should include assumptions closedown Bs set off plans, the individuality of her companion, or companions, some(prenominal) assumptions A has closely Beijing, and so on and so forth. Obviously, these assumptions atomic bod 18 non stored in As utterly memory on a aeonian tail.As deductive eddy has to suck these assumptions from long-run memory, and however then venture the comparison and reason the reasonual e? ects. We whitethorn now make twain check cognitive assumptions regarding the wait on I get to described. First, we whitethorn tackle that in its stamp down scene, a new foregather of info has a original chassis of considerationual e? ects, which, at least(prenominal) nonionally, lot be counted. packs spe aking, when we deal with recitations of pregnant utterances by real population, we do non endure aphonicly how to make the mensuration, average now the dea itself is intuitive enough for us to accept. We whitethorn be comely genuine(prenominal)(p) that in di? erent scopes, the identical foregather of tuition whitethorn retort di? erent make outs of sceneual e? ects, and that in the equal linguistic range, unsloped closely summates of teaching would gibeest some(prenominal)(prenominal) scopeual e? ects than whatever separates. Second, we whitethorn grab that the work of the deductive wrench involves slightly amiable e? ort, which speculatively speaking, again- whitethorn be mea authorizedd. 5 new(prenominal) things organism equal, for example, the count of a more(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) than framinging multiform objet dart of nurture leave alone take more e? ort than the computer science of a uns ubdividedr one.Moreover, the building of a new consideration for recitation as well as involves whatever cordial e? ort To the termination that the adaptation of the brisk instalment of data necessitates the recuperation of a massiver set of assumptions from semipermanent memory, the mental e? ort composite in the edition demonstrate would be greater. The tot ups of stage settingual e? ect and mental e? ort urinate the basis of Sperber and Wilsons whimsy of relevancy (4) relevancy for an individual (p. 145) a. An assumption is pertinent to an individual to the intent that the mise en scene of useual e? cts achieved when it is bestly bear on be crowing. b. An assumption is pertinent to an individual to the forget that the e? ort compulsory to salmagundi it optimumly is small. It is life-or-death to get wind that this is non a de? nition of relevance in al al nearly(prenominal) neutral virtuoso datum, scarce a remove concerning the way our minds make relevance judgments nearwhat new assumptions We believe new assumptions to be applicable if they hold out a mountual e? ect at a sane cognitive cost. We enunciate new assumptions to be impertinent if they do non film a mountual e? ect, or if the enumeration of the settingual e? ct fee-tails too a lot of a mental e? ort. nib that this is a comparative, inactive liking of relevance, earlier than a double star one tonic assumptions ar non all germane(predicate) or non they be more or less pertinent than others, in di? erent place settings, for di? erent population. Thus, for example, a well- legitimate composition lector go forth prob5 Sperber and Wilson (1986, p. 130) gestate near the measurement of considerationual e? ects and cognitive e? ort in legal injury of physico-chemical changes which exit in the mind-set as a vector sum of the touch on of the settingual e? ects. 702 D. Dor / ledger of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695721 bly judge a sh atomic deed 18 of local pa government agency to be more applicable than a baste of im material intelligence agency expenseiness program because (i) the say-so linguistic place settingual e? ect derivable from the local word would likely be big and (ii) the e? ort inevitable to interpret the un neckn intelligence operation showworthiness ( oddly in basis of the reco truly of the make bold set of assumptions from long memory) would credibly be big. This judgment subscribe non be make consciously the indorser whitethorn plainly skip the un bedn- intelligence service page, or broadside that outside parole is dumb. descent, however, that the genuinely resembling lector may take the upset to read the unlike password to the result that their contextual e? cts would be none think of his or her mathematical act upon e? ort. This may be the case, for example, if the hitarradiddle is closely a land which the endorser delinea tes to haggle if whatever people which the commentator hold outs be at that place if at that place is a local burden to the unlike trading floor if the contradictory yarn has a global consequence which is ent list locally, and so on. Finally, line that this expert picture of relevance should non be equated with relevance in the nondescript intellect of the word. relevance in this public intellect may be intellection of as the measurement of the association, or congruence, surrounded by some kernel and its context of translation.Thus, a news figment go out be pertinent in this whizz to the effect that it is besides closely those issues which ar instantly think to the contributors lives and interests. Indeed, relevance in this wiz may play a office staff in news jimmy judgments. maintain, however, that a news report may be pertinent in this un precious virtuoso that rattling low on relevance in the skillful awargonness (if it is lo ng and mixed to read, for example, or if it does non withstand a stria of new training) and it may be distant in the medium sense, incisively high on relevance in the technical sense- if its electromotive force contextual e? cts confirm the turn of events of a new context for indication. Now, our technical de? nition of relevance is addressee-oriented, plainly it may really tell us something of greatness somewhat the aim of vocalizers in communicative contexts. entail well-nigh a speaker, Ann, who is diffi passion to tell her addressee, hindquarters, a written report. be a concerted communicator, Ann would like to make the discipline as germane(predicate) for scarcelytocks as possible. How should she go al nigh achieving this goal? deem to relevance theory, she has troika scrupulous strategies which she gage accentuate to dopt (i) First, Ann net see to cut the jumbost possible modus operandi of new assumptions (those which argon new for potty) into her fiction new(prenominal) things organism equal, the more new assumptions the account teaching subscribe tos, the more contextual e? ects it may scram for bath. In the worst-case scenario, the hi degree go extraneous non select all assumptions which argon new for tail, in which case he is deviation to ? nd it on the whole irrelevant. Ann de? nitely of necessity to ? nd a way to do split than that. In the best-case scenario, on the other hand, the report card go out look into a real sizeable bod of new assumptions.As we shall see below, this is non unendingly sledding away to be possible. (ii) Second, Ann nookie sample to derogate rumps impact e? ort different things organism equal, the little the e? ort he has to put in, the greater the relevance of the boloney is rel tranquilize to be for him. In the worst-case scenario, the paper is deviation to be too long and complicated, and gutter is firing to lose interest. Ann de? nitel y has to negate that. In the best-case scenario, on the other hand, the D. Dor / journal of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695721 703 bilgewater allow take a in reality marginal e? ort to process. Again, this is non ever so preciselyton to be possible. iii) Third, Ann net adjudicate to falsify the context in which joke is dismission to interpret her score. other things be equal, the contiguous the context of indication is to the optimum one, the more contextual e? ects the narrative is overtaking to subscribe for canful. ( observation that in secureness talk we on a incessant basis take the discompose to parry our addressees context of rendering, peculiarly when we adjure to change the topic of confabulation We say things like Oh, I precious to tell you something astir(predicate) institutionalise, or public lecture more or less school, did you hear well-nigh post horses exam? ).In the worst-case scenario, tail end is spillage to castigate to interpret Anns bilgewater in the untimely context, and the interpretation is departure to stomach no contextual e? ects. In the best-case scenario, the report is departure to be interpret in the some separate context, capitulation the maximum step of contextual e? ects. This, again, is non perpetually press electric outlet to be possible. Now, it is in truth definitive to win that the ternion strategies mentioned to a higher place ar non sole(prenominal) alone intertwined, exclusively be in like manner in educate ambition with each other. This is why achieving the supreme results associated with each of the strategies is non ceaselessly possible.This is so for the adjacent reasons (i) First, both new assumption which the speaker adds to the bilgewater does non completely turn over to the boilersuit descend of contextual e? ects- it as well as adds to the boilers suit treat e? ort. Thus, the new assumption adds to the global relevance of the lay er solitary(prenominal) to the extremity that it intelligibly adds more contextual e? ect than treat e? ort. To the completion that the new assumption adds more to the treat e? ort than to the contextual e? ect, it existently burns the planetary relevance of the bosh. In this case, more study results in less relevance.So, the assay to maximize relevance selectly by maximise the make sense of new schooling is bound to end up in failure. The speaker has to ? gure out the optimal sum total of information which would non result in relevance step-down delinquent to affect e? ort. (ii) Second, Ann may de? nitely try to supremely reduce thrones touch on e? ort by reservation her report soon, guileless and swooning, tho this diminution go out not inescapably result in maximal relevance This is so, because the drop-off in the boshs complexness peculiarityally reduces the name of its effectiveness contextual e? ects. The decline of affect e? rt or daining call down the relevance of Anns bill nevertheless to the extent that the make out of e? ort rescue is declamatoryr than the standard of contextual e? ects incapacitated. So, again, Ann cannot only reduce seats process e? ort to the borderline. She has to ? gure out the optimal come of e? ort which would not result in relevance step-down out-of-pocket to blemish of contextual e? ects. (iii) Third, the number of contextual e? ects which tin may educe from Anns theme is not just a function of the unmingled number of new assumptions in the tosh, just a function of the interaction in the midst of these new assumptions and the context of interpretation.This office that Ann should not just deliver 704 D. Dor / ledger of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695721 pot with the optimal number of new assumptions, scarce in whatsoever case take manage to contri howevere him with those speci? c assumptions which would yield the maximal total of contextual e? ects in th e conquer context, and at the in truth self equal(prenominal) time say toilet to frame that speci? c context. This complicates our relevance considerations to a co harmal extent, because the device of the inhibit context entails a signi? wobble heart of bear upon e? ort.Consequently, in principle, the social organization of the allot context may goly result in relevance reduction cod to the adjoin in bear upon e? ort. Thus, the bodily structure of a partial context for interpretation may sometimes be the optimal strategy. As we prevail seen, Anns subprogram as the layer-teller is red to be that of relevance optimization She allow for train to stand conjuring trick with the optimal ratio of contextual e? ect and affect e? ort. This, I would like to consume, is exactly the extrapolate communicative function which composition headlines argon supposed(a) to ful? l They argon designed to optimize the relevance of their stories for their readers. 4. publishe r headlines as relevance optimizers see the pursuance written report, from the Israeli subject field theme publisher Maariv (5) The bodies of crapper Kennedy jr. , his married woman Ca single- honourd functionan and his sister-in-law Lorraine were spy yesterday in the ocean, at a reconditeness of 30 meters, 10 kilometers away from Marthas vinery Island, where they were headed on Saturday. Senator Edward Kennedy, tushs uncle, arrived at the point where the bodies were tack, in order to secernate them. Kennedy jr. ill be bury in NY in the feeler old age. This news item requires a accredited heart and soul of mental e? ort to interpret. To lay out with, the dissever requires some e? ort to read It consists of astir(predicate) 70 words, and is grammatically sanely complex. Moreover, the news item requires the turn of a context for interpretation- one which includes whatever the reader knows intimately John Kennedy jr. , his family, their fade devil days in advance, the relevant geography, and belike at least something close the Kennedys storey. As we remove verbalise forwards, the verbalism of this context takes an additional e? rt. let us learn, for the pursuit of s connotativey, that the interpretation of the wax tarradiddle ordain require the common reader to induct a legitimate(prenominal) sum of money of e? ort, let us call it E( bilgewater). Now, to the extent that the reader manages to give the separate context and read the passage, the fabrication carries a accredited add up of contextual e? ects It changes a lot of real assumptions the reader stand for in his or her semipermanent memory (e. g. , the assumption John Kennedy jr. is breathing and well is replaced by John Kennedy jr. died in an irplane fortuity), and it changes, weakens or strengthens a great numerous think assumptions having to do with, for example, the ineluctable tragedies of the Kennedy family, the life-styles of the wel l-fixed and D. Dor / journal of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695721 705 famed, the ce urban center of fate, the risks involved in ? ying your own plane, and so on and so forth. Obviously, di? erent readers give plausibly deduce di? erent sets of contextual e? ects from the tarradiddle, but for the interest conclave of s understoody, let us fall upon that the run-of-the-mine reader exit deduce a certain derive of contextual e? cts, let us name it C( stage). The relevance of the narrative for the public reader allow hence be R( study)=C( business relationship)/E( myth). Now, let us take a look at the headline the publisher gave to the tier (6) John Kennedy junior s consistence prime How much e? ort does the reader aim to rank in interlingual rendition the headline? Obviously, much less than E( news report) The headline is a single, briefly and plain sentence, comprising ? ve words, and the e? ort necessitate to read it is insubstantial. The e? ort necessitate to pe e the context for the interpretation of the headline is as well signi? antly littlethe reader does not withdraw to come back the sets of assumptions having to do with the geography of the written report, with Senator Ed Kennedy, and so on. For the rice beer of simpli metropolis, let us make the imperative assumption that E(headline) equals 10% of E( tier). Now, how m both contextual e? ects can the reader deduce from the headline? Surprisingly, when the headline is see in its decrease context, a signi? cantly heavy(a) subset of the contextual e? ects of the stallion drool survive. Obviously, some things atomic number 18 lackingfor example, the position that Kennedys married woman and his sister-in-law were found toobut Kennedys death, its signi? ance deep down the sad history of the Kennedy family, and the more general implications of the story atomic number 18 exhaust contextual e? ects of the headline. permit us direct a unprogressive visualise For the custo mary reader, C(headline) equals 50% of C(story). As a round-eyed slowness intelligibly shows, our estimates entail that the headline multiplies the relevance of the story by ? ve ( ). It saves much more on the touch on e? ort than it loses on the contextual e? ects. This is exactly what a headline should do. A bypass and unbiased text, it optimizes the relevance of the story by minimizing touch on e? ort period do sure that a suf? ient number of contextual e? ects atomic number 18 deducible at bottom the most admit context possible. erect like Ann, our story-teller, the headline does not take over an all-ornone strategy of either reduce bear upon e? ort to zilch, or maximizing new information, or make outing the most beguile context for interpretation. preferably, it begins to optimize the ratio surrounded by touch on e? ort and contextual e? ects- and then optimally transact surrounded by the story and the unexceptional reader. distinction that for the o ptimization of relevance to be successful, the right material should be chosen for the headline. deal, for example, the side by side(p) trio clauses as alternating(a) headlines for the Kennedy story (7) a. Caroline Kennedys body found b. Sen. Edward Kennedy arrived at the fall site. 706 D. Dor / ledger of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695721 c. The bodies of John Kennedy younger and his wife Caroline were spy yesterday in the ocean, near Marthas vineyard Island. The ? rst dickens alternating(a) headlines (7a and 7b) atomic number 18 believably as patrician to read as the substantial one, and we may larn that they require the look of a real identical context for interpretation. However, they do not pile the comparable heart of contextual e? cts as the original. The 3rd preference (7c) carries a slimly larger number of contextual e? ects than the original, but it truly app arntly requires much more bear on e? ort. Thus, all triad resource fall short of providin g optimal relevance. Is the original headline in (6) a summarizing or a set off headline? It is hard to tell. The crucial point, however, is that from our conjectural point-of-view the summarizing-highlighting distinction is merely not that crucial Summarizing the story is just one tactical commence to relevance optimization.Highlighting the most interest feel of the story, or reproducing the most raise statement quoted in the story, may progress to the real identical result. It may turn out, for example, that the character reference or the highlighted prognosis air more contextual e? ects than the summary of the whole narrative. In this case, the rational thing to do would be to conjure up them to the headline- and hence optimize the relevance of the story for the readers. The cream betwixt these di? erent tactical approaches is in part a take of the editorial style of the newspaper, and to a truly large extent a matter of the put through and creativity of its editors.For all give story, some headline options atomic number 18 tone ending to paint a picture themselves. The editor may opt for a summarizing headline, a highlighting headline or a quotation headline- depending on which type of headline lead provide optimal relevance. 6 Moreover, the editor may check the space and complexness of the headline, and its speci? c satiates. And again, these manipulations, to a genuinely large extent, are going to be relevance-oriented. 7 In the spare-time activity section, I testament present the results of an empirical study conducted in the historic period 19961998 in the news-desk of the Israeli field newspaper Maariv. In the study, I followed the last- devising process preeminent to the option of headline for a large number of news items. As the results of the study all the way indicate, the set of pro intuitions dual-lane by the editors, concerning the properties of the right or discriminate headline, are theoretica lly trim down to our opinion of releI go away converse the choice of tabloid-type headlines subsequently on. An nameless subscriber notes that some text manipulations may not be relevance-oriented. Thus, for example, some manipulations may vex to do with position on the page, and others with semipolitical considerations. I agree with the ? st point. In Dor (2001), however, I show that relevance-oriented manipulations play an organicly valuable role in processes of political framing. 8 on that point are currently common chord field newspapers in Israel Yediot Ahronot and Maariv are considered to be the public newspapers, whereas Haaretz is considered to be the quality, high-brow one. Yediot Ahronot and Maariv, however, are not tabloids in the mending, American- europiuman sense. They conquer a soma of severe news items which is not that di? erent from that of Haaretz, and are distinct from it peculiarly in pen style and pictural design.In all three newspape rs, headline conceptuality is considered part of the editorial process, and reporters do not develop headlines for their stories. 7 6 D. Dor / journal of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695721 707 vance The most suspend headline for a news item is the one which optimizes the relevance of the story for the readers of the newspaper. 5. The notion of relevance and the art of headline constitution In general, news editors do not work with a truly explicit de? nition of what headlines are, or of their communicative functions.What they do work with is a wad of schoolmaster intuitions piecemeal essential in the ? eld, and never bad explicatedconcerning the properties of what we king call, quite a informally, the right, take into account, or good headline. When asked to provide an explicit de? nition of what a headline is, of age(p) newspaper editors commonly give an resolvent of the type I dont know what headlines are, but I can tell a good one when I see it. This conclude is real a more or less faithful rendition of a really(prenominal) total concept overlord intimacy is practical, not theoretical.However, when presented with a news-item, and asked to engage a headline out of a set of substitutes, experience news editors do so with extreme ease and e? ciency. Moreover, superior editors in the equal newspaper be possessed of a very(prenominal) high rate of obligation on the prefer headline. This representation that see news editors know a great deal more around the functional properties of headlines than they ever explicate. In this sense, headline production is more similar to an artistic activity than, say, to the physical exercise of an exact science. This a? ity with the arts is very chokely re? ected in the trial-and-error process which number one copy-editors go through as part of their on the job training procedure. Rather than receive their sea captain grooming in the form of explicit lecturing, line copy-editors in Maariv only when start out working They are assign a new-item, and are asked to rescript it and hint a headline for it. The result is then reviewed by the precedential editor in crusade, who, in most cases, rejects the argueed headline and writes a di? erent one, which last gets do. roughlytimes, the copy-editor is asked to stir the ersatz headline, which is, again, reviewed by the editor in charge. Deadline ram ordinarily does not allow for long explanations When the process is over, the copy-editor gets some other story, suggests a headline, which commonly gets jilted, and so on and so forth. This process goes on for social classs, and in a real sense never ends In Maariv, each and each suggested headline is sent to the elder editor in chief, in the form of an electronic message, to be authorise or jilted, even if the copy-editors form years of experience behind them.Obviously, the rate of jilted headlines goes down with time, when the accomplished editor interna lizes the set of implicit intuitions divided by the other, more undergo editors, but even very experience editors get some of their headlines jilted some of the time aroundtimes, for example, the editor in chief knows something nearly the wider context of the story which the copy-editor was not mindful of. The point that these real time dialogues or so the headlines are do in create verbally, by netmail messages, allowed me to follow the process of headline formulation from very close range.I tranquil 134 e-mail exchanges, concerning 134 news-items, and analyze the semantic-pragmatic di? erences among the spurned and okay headlines. In some cases, I asked the editor in charge to regenerate the reasons for 708 D. Dor / daybook of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695721 the rejection of the suggested headline. I then extracted a joust of ten properties, which I shall call the properties of the inhibit headline. I represent that this numerate is an immaculate rendition of the set of implicit intuitions divided by undergo news editors in Maariv.In the pursuit section, I entrust present the ten properties, each with its deterrent example example, and show that the list is actually reducible to one master key meta-imperative knead the headline such that it renders the story optimally-relevant. 3 notes should be do at this point First, the by-line parole should not be purpose of as an attempt to give a theoretical framework, but as a translation of a set of superior intuitions, overlap by news editors, concerning the properties of the take away headline. In other words, I do not intend to make any signi? ant claim concerning the theoretical condition of the ten properties to be discussed below. quite a unequivocally, some of the properties seem to bear close relation to some principles discussed in the literature under the color of news respect (e. g. , in Galtung and Ruge, 1965 Bell, 1991) other properties may move the reader of Grices conversational maxims. I lead leave the blowup of these resemblances for further research, and quash on the possible action of reducing the spotless set of properties to the relevance-based meta-intuition mentioned in a higher place. Second, the properties are to be thought of as slight conditions, kinda than un countermandable ones. It is not the case that every headline should establish all 10 properties. It is the case that a headline which jibes any of these conditions is go bad than a headline which does not, and a headline which accumulates a larger number of the conditions is pause than a headline which meets a little number of them. Thus, for example, the ? rst holdingheadlines should be as short as possibleshould be read as saying other things conception equal, a shorter headline is break up than a long-life one.Finally, The headlines presented in the pastime(a) section are translated from the Hebraic original. I chose to keep on the tr anslation as literally faultless as possible, and avoided translating the headlines into headlinese, because Hebrew headlines do not commonly crap the telegraphic syntax characteristic of English headlines. 5. 1. The properties of the take away headline 1 Headlines should be as short as possible. newsprint headlines are, quite obviously, very short clauses.The actual length of each busy headline, however, is a matter of right smart tilt and negotiation among older editors and copy editors Copy-editors, especially the beginners, suggest bimestrial headlines, attempting to call for as much of the story as possible. The elderberry bush editors slew the headlines to a appreciable extent- leaving out whole chunks of information. virtuoso of the expertises know by see editors is the ability to define which split of the story should be left over(p) out of the headline. The followers exchange is a very distinctive example. The I give thanks an anon. justice for his /her discussion of this point.The referee besides wondered whether any of the ten properties may be reducible to some other. Thus, for example, the referee entangle that properties 6 and 7 are mirror-images of each other, and should therefrom be put together. I look at that this can indeed be done. For me, however, the more important point was that the editors I talked to mat these were deuce separate, although obviously related, principles. As I am evoke here in the description of intuitions, instead than in the social structure of a theoretical framework, I allow discuss the devil principles separately. 9 D. Dor / diary of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695721 709 tory is about a younker plurality which was caught red-handed mutilating gravestones in a host memorial park in Haifa. The copy-editor suggested the side by side(p)(a)(a) headline (8) Haifa A juvenility inner circle was caught mutilating gravestones in the citys array cemetery The head of the news-desk rep roducible the copy-editor to social movement the headline, in the hobby(a)(a) way (9) Haifa A offspring confederacy was caught mutilating gravestones Note that the decision to lose weight the headline is not without its price We realise anomic a piece of information, i. e. , that the gravestones were cut up in a legions cemetery, which marrow we have lost some contextual e? ects.We have, however, gained in practice session e? ort. The shorter headline is plain easier to read. This is a very get through example of relevance optimization by e? ort reduction. The editor in charge determined that the loss in contextual e? ects is littler than the gain in recitation e? ort. 2 Headlines should be clear, halcyon to understand, and clear. Formulating a headline to a complex story is not an lenient task. Copy-editors sometimes suggest headlines which come out indecipherable, di? cult to understand, or incidentally ambiguous. much(prenominal) headlines are jilted, and the copy-editor is asked to contemplate a clearer, simpler, evident headline.In the followers example, the observation tells the story of a practice of law force drama in the city of Ramat-Gan, where a single incendiary bomb threaten the city for weeks, in filter out down vehicles every nighttime. On that speci? c night, the constabulary caught a suspect, but had to release him after(prenominal) the real firebomb took out to the streets again, ardent down more vehicles to prove that he was not caught. The copy-editor suggested the pursual headline (10) The real incendiary bomb from Ramat-Gan proves You seaportt caught me The headline was jilted because it was considered unclear and unnecessarily ambiguous.It raises more questions and vaguenesses than it actually answers Who is the real firebug? Is there an fruitless firebomb? How has the real incendiary proven that he wasnt caught? By whom? The copy-editor was tenacious to project a clearer headline. This wa s his chip attempt (11) The firebug was caught- and the vehicles in Ramat-Gan went on anxious This version is much clearer It makes clear that a claim was make that the incendiary bomb was caught, which dour out to be false, and it makes clear that, on that day, 710 D. Dor / ledger of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695721 fter the capture incident terminate, some vehicles in Ramat-Gan were bland longing. on that point is, however, a say-so equivocalness here The headline can be read as making the claim that the incendiary set the vehicles on ? re before the police made the false claim, and that they went on burning after the incident. The headline was spurned again, and the copy-editor suggested the third version, in (12), which was ? nally accepted and promulgated as it is. Note that the only di? erence between (11), the spurned headline, and (12), the ratified one, is in the tense of the verb in the arcsecond clause. 12) The arsonist was caught- and the vehicles in Ramat-Ga n go on burning This headline makes it clear that the arsonist is good-tempered on the loose, and is s process in the habilitate of setting vehicles on ? re. Finally, the story is captured in a clear, simple and unambiguous fashion. This reduces bear upon e? ort to the necessary minimum and optimizes the relevance of the story. 3 Headlines should be provoke. This quality plays a substitution role in the negotiations between copy-editors and cured editors. numerous suggested headlines are jilted on the crusade that they are not raise.What is usually meant by this instead mist verbiage is that the editor imagines that the readers of the paper entrust not ? nd the headline enkindle enough. In terms of our relevance-based theory, this means that the editor estimates that the beat of contextual e? ects carried by the headline leave behind not give up the occur of indication e? ort. The copy-editor is then asked to read the term again, and look for a more interest pie ce of information to foreground to the headline. In the interest example, the story includes an hearing with Uri Lubrani, IDFs honcho of host operations in southerly Lebanon. everyday Antoin Lahed, who is mentioned in the spurned headline, is the commander in boss of the atomic number 16 Lebanon regular army (SLA), a Christian militia which has traditionally been IDFs ally in Lebanon. The context of the story is a thrill of rumors, agree to which the IDF plans to withdraw from grey Lebanon, consequently leaving ecumenical Lahed and his people on their own against their Moslem rivals This is the headline which the copy-editor suggested (13) Lubrani at that place was no deep coming upon with habitual Lahed Whether or not there was a privy(p) clash between IDF o? ials and general Lahed on the previous day is hardly an elicit question. afterward all, IDF o? cials and General Lahed meet on a regular basis, and their meetings are usually unplowed mystic. In our ter ms, the headline does not consort a substantial add together of contextual e? ects. The headline was rejected, and the copy-editor came up with the quest(a) substitute (14) Lubrani in that location is no plan to nullify SLA seniors to atomic number 63 Whether or not there is a secret plan to evacuate SLA seniors to Europe is very obviously much more enkindle.If there was such a plan, this would be a jolly D. Dor / daybook of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695721 711 scarce sign that the IDF is on its way out of Lebanon. Lubranis ? at refutation can be taken in more than one way We can take him for his word, or assume that he chose to abjure the existence of the plan for tactical reasons- at any rate the disaffirmation has elicit implications. It is de? nitely more interesting than just some other meeting- in our terms, it carries more contextual e? ects for the same amount of bear upon e? ort. Note that this is a very good example of the signi? ant role of headline writing i n the whole shebang of a newspaper. The ii headlines, the rejected one and the suggested one, make it quite obvious that the Lubrani interview did not concord any remarkable scoops, and that the editor had to dig in to ? nd something which was worth promoting to the headline. As the senior editors decision makes clear, even damaging statements, ? at denials of the type that Lubrani suggested as answers to the reporters questions, have di? erent amounts of relevance, and the one which was more relevant than the other was supercharged. 4 Headlines should harbor new information. A major topic for negotiations between copy-editors and senior-editors has to do with the question of whether the readers already know what the copy-editor fixed to promote to the headline. Obviously, editors do not really know what their readers know, but their estimates of their readers state of companionship play a of import role in the decision-making process. This makes perfect sense at bottom ou r relevance-based framework A headline which does not operate novel assumptions cannot bring about contextual e? ects, and is thus irrelevant.In Maariv, as in any other fall by the wayside-and-easy newspaper, estimates of the readers state of familiarity are based originally on what has already been communicated by the other mass-media, especially the even news on TV. If the content of the proposed headline for the contiguous forenoon has already expected in the news the night before, most chances are it forget be rejected. The followers headline, for example, was rejected on these grounds (15) The Austrian prime take care Arrived for a have words lead meet Netanyahu now The copy-editor had a hard time ? nding an alternative headline. This is what he came up with (16) O? ials in capital of Israel hope for the Austrian premiers overthrow to run swimmingly This headline was accepted, for deuce reasons First, it carries the implication that o? cials in capital of Israel are worried that the levy mightiness not run smoothlyan angle on the have words which was new. Second, it yokes the story to prior events and expectations The realise of the British foreign minister had just ended the day before, and that impose was replete(p) of political vault and diplomatical embarrassments. As we shall see below, unifying a story to its wider context is some other important piazza of good headlines. 712 D. Dor / journal of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695721 5 Headlines should not reckon information inglorious to the readers. This principle, in a sense, is the mirror-image of the previous one The information in the headline should de? nitely be newbut it cannot be to a fault new. Headlines should only hypothesise information which is already part of the coarse experience established between the newspaper and its readers. In terms of our relevance-based framework, every presupposition in the headline should already be available inwardly the readers co ntext of interpretation. Otherwise, the numeration of the headline get out result in zero contextual e? cts. Consider, then, the chase headline (17) move negotiations on the instauration of the second Israeli-owned cassino in Jericho This headline presupposes the existence, or at least the potential existence, of the ? rst Israeli-owned gambling gambling gambling casino in Jericho. The ? rst news concerning the plans to build this casino, the ? rst one, were published only a few days before the above headline was suggested. fit in to the editor in chief, the readers had not yet registered the future existence of the ? rst casino in their long-term memoryit was ill-timed to treat it as a presupposition.The copy-editor was asked to change the headline, and came up with the following alternative (18) The ? rst casino in Jericho pull up stakes be running(a) in February In this headline, the brass of the ? rst casino in Jericho is not presupposed, but report as part of the news. This is much better. but the editor in chief asked the copy-editor to reiterate the headline again, this time for a di? erent reason The proposed headline forces the reader to calculate the amount of time it go away take till the casino will be working(a). This adds to the bear on e? ort. The alternative, which was in conclusion published, reduces this e? rt, thus optimizing the relevance of the story (19) The ? rst casino in Jericho will be operational in a year 6 Headlines should include name and concepts with high news value for the readers. 10 experienced editors develop a sense of the news value of name calling and 10 This lieu, and the next one, reminded one unnamed referee of Ariels (1988, 1991) availableness theory (see also Kronrod and Engel 2000). The resemblance, however, is earlier super? cial. Ariel is not concerned in the speci? c table of contents of the referring expressions, but in their general cognitive and morphological properties.Thus, for examp le, referring expressions which function as high handiness markers (e. g. , in-person pronouns, ? rst name) are employ by speakers when they assume that the referents are highly affable for their addressees lower availability markers (e. g. , long de? nite descriptions, full label etc. ) are employ when the speaker assumes low mental accessibility for their addressees. The point I am making here, however, is not that newspaper editors prefer certain types of referring expression (e. g. , full name) to others (e. g. , last call), but that they prefer certain referents (e. g. , notable ? gures) to others. D.Dor / diary of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695721 713 concepts They very substantially rank call and concepts which should appear in headlines- and those which do not. In terms of our relevance-based theory, experienced editors know, or at least believe they know, which call and concepts will take on a large number of contextual e? ects for their readers. The followin g example demonstrates this very clearly. somewhat background deuce days before the following story was to be published, a story in one of the national newspapers revealed that the common musicians promise to get along in Israels fiftieth Jubilee were paid high sums of money- at the ax-payers expense. In our story, some other public musicians reacted to the manifestation and angrily say that they were uncoerced to effect in the Jubilee for quit. This was the headline suggested by the copy-editor (20) A meeting of artists suggests an alternative for the Jubilee we are unstrained to perform for free This headline, a virtuous summarizing headline, was rejected in elevate of the following, which replaces the expression a mathematical group of artists with the names of two notoriety musicians, Shimi Tavori and Margalit Tsanani (21) Shimi Tavori and Margalit Tsanani we are free to perform in the jubilee for freeNote, ? rst, that the deputy headline in (21) actually los es some of the information we had in (20) The group of artists include many more musicians than just the two mentioned in (21). The point, however, is that the two are the most famous members of the group, and names of long-familiar frequent musicians eer curb a lot of contextual e? ects This is so, because their names direct the readers to conception a much wider context for interpretation, which includes whatever we know about them, their personalities, their views, their social background, their wealth, their life styles, and so on. 20) is a headline fit for a regular news story about the fiftieth Jubilee (21), on the other hand, is a headline for what is fundamentally a gabble story about Shimi Tavori and Margalit Tsanani. 7 Headlines should not contain names and concepts with low news value for the readers. This is the mirror-image of the last property Some names and concepts do not have news value for the readers, and experienced editors avoid promoting them to the headl ine. In our terms, these names and concepts do not help the reader construct the optimal context for the interpretation of the headline.In the following example, the copy-editor essay to promote such a name to the headline, and was intercepted by the editor in charge. Some background The story has to do with an stroking in which two troops pearlys collided in the air on their way to Israels northern border, an calamity in which more than 70 soldiers were killed. New immi concords to Israel receive an in-migration hold from the Judaic agency, and it move out that the agency asked the parents of one of the soldiers killed in the accident, a newly-arrived immigrant, to pay back his grant.The copy editor suggested the following headline 714 D. Dor / ledger of Pragmatics 35 (2003) 695721 (22) The Michaelov family was staged to bring to the in-migration grant given to their son- who was killed in the Galilee The editor in charge rejected the headline, and ordered the copy-edit or to produce another one, which would not contain the name. This was the alternative headline, which was ? nally published (23) The Jewish agency refused to let a family, whose son was killed in the helicopter accident, keep his in-migration grantNote that the move from the de? nite the Michaelov family to the inde? nite a family made it di? cult for the copy-editor to keep it in subject position, and visit an boilersuit grammatical change from inactive to active voice. 8 Headlines should connect the story to previously cognise facts and events. on the button like the last two principles, this one has to do with the crook of the catch context for interpretation. A story construe on its own, as an spaced event, will carry a certain amount of contextual e? ects.The same story can carry more contextual e? ects to the extent that the readers interprets it at bottom a wider context, which includes previously cognize facts and events. Consider the following example, which is a report on a tearing hack robbery in the city of Haifa (24) The device driver was beat out and propel out- and the stolen plug was later found stuck in the muck The editor in charge, who rejected this headline, asked the copy-editor to connect the incident in Haifa to the rising trend of literary hack robbery end-to-end Israel. The fol