The Pragmatic Gravity of the Semantic Compositionality of News Headlines: Violating Grice’s Principle as a Linguistic Model to Calibrate the Communicative Weight of That Gravity

The first fold of the aim this study was to investigate pragmatic gravity semantic compositionality news headlines; second violating Grice’s principle Cooperation as a linguistic model calibrate communicative weight that gravity; accordingly, two proposals emerge throughout study: is weave, headlines, normally charged with great capacity which serves, by proxy, interests various agents continuum; Maxims (quantity, quality, manner, and relevance) applicable can magnitude capacity. To achieve two-fold study, researcher followed an exploratory qualitative methodology; corpus available related literature has been scrutinized, researcher, in survey-like approach, establish enough evidence augment argument study; addition, it should be stated discretionary reflexive assertions, reflecting opinion have given within summary sections review; same token, tabulation practical examples, scattered literature, allow unified cohesive understanding regard study. Findings confirm existence weave findings revealed not dictated, contrary what acknowledged bulk only economic limited space demands newspaper, but, on contrary, structured impact intended readers; also tracking violation maxims relevance), effective reveal, calibrate, evaluate aspects headlines. As result, come up conclusions recommendations.