What`s Your Number? – Numeral Preference in Viral Headlines from 3 Websites Cover Image

What`s Your Number? – Numeral Preference in Viral Headlines from 3 Websites
What`s Your Number? – Numeral Preference in Viral Headlines from 3 Websites

Author(s): Radostina Vladkova Iglikova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: viral headline; numeral; website; BuzzFeed; Cosmopolitan womens magazine

Summary/Abstract: The present article offers a comparison of headlines from 3 different websites - www.buzzfeed.com, www.cosmopolitan.com and www. cosmopolitan.bg - in terms of the specific numerals used and their frequency of occurrence. The first of the three websites serves as a benchmarkfor viral headlines and is compared to two websites belonging to a single brand - the Cosmopolitan women s magazine. This approach aims at providing an interlinguistic, comparative aspect to the analysis of numerals and the phenomenon of virality.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 203-211
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English