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This article is about how satirical newspaper headlines use word combinations that deviate from both our explicit and implicit impressions of how language is normally used.

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Why is it important?

This provides a partial explanation as to how the linguistic structure of a satirical headline may help a reader understand that a headline is indeed satirical.

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I believe this work helps marry perspectives from both figurative language and humor based on a very interesting yet understudied phenomena - satire.

Stephen Skalicky
Victoria University of Wellington

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This page is a summary of: Lexical priming in humorous satirical newspaper headlines, Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, September 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/humor-2017-0061.
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