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was not the case with the older population, because they attend cultur-
al events to a much lesser degree (or perhaps they were simply more sin-
cere in their answers). Only 7.5 % of older examinees are regular read-
ers and 58 % are occasional readers. The results concerning global aware-
ness6 of the examinees are somewhat different: both groups of exami-
nees are equally well informed by the media (48 %).
Therefore, there were obviously significant individual differences in
the degree of recognition of the paraphrased original. Just attempting to
reconstruct the model informed us of the examinee’s ability to recognize
the origin of the paraphrased headline: the number of recognized sourc-
es of headline paraphrases ranged from 26 % to 88 %.
4.2.1. Different Degrees of Reception of Headlines by Younger Examinees
Younger examinees showed different stages of recognition of head-
lines from the corpus. According to the percentage of successful original
form reconstruction, results can be divided in four groups:
A. Maximum degree of recognition in which 75–100 % of examinees rec-
ognized a group of 15 paraphrases. This is 26 % of the corpus. Here
are some examples.7 The Dalmatian folk song title Šime is back / Vrati-
ja se Šime is recognized by 100 % of examinees in the headline Drago is
back / Vratija se Drago. The famous movie title Lassie come home / Las-
sie se vraća kući was recognized by 98 % of examinees in the headline
Kobe Bryant come home / Kobe Bryant se vraća kući. The old proverbs
Pay so you can mock / Plati pa se rugaj and Through the thorns to the
stars / Preko trnja do zvijezda are recognized by 90 % of the examinees
in the headlines Pay so you can swim / Plati pa se kupaj and Through
the mud to the stars / Kroz blato do zvijezda. 75 % of examinees knew
that the headline Spices against humanity / Začini protiv čovječnos-
ti comes from the phrase Crimes against Humanity / Zločini protiv
čovječnosti.
B. Second degree of recognition in which 50–74 % of examinees recog-
nized a group of 16 paraphrases which makes up 28 % of the corpus.
For example,8 examinees recognized the movie title Lost in trans-
lation / Izgubljeni u prijevodu in the headline Lost in the institution /
Izgubljeni u zavodu (73 %) and the Czech movie My Sweet Little Vil-
lage / Selo moje malo in the headline My sweet nuclear village / Selo moje
6 General awareness refers to internet usage, reading a newspaper, listening to the radio, watching tel-
evision …
7 All examples are in Appendix 1.
8 For other examples see Appendix 1.
in newspaper headlines 401
was not the case with the older population, because they attend cultur-
al events to a much lesser degree (or perhaps they were simply more sin-
cere in their answers). Only 7.5 % of older examinees are regular read-
ers and 58 % are occasional readers. The results concerning global aware-
ness6 of the examinees are somewhat different: both groups of exami-
nees are equally well informed by the media (48 %).
Therefore, there were obviously significant individual differences in
the degree of recognition of the paraphrased original. Just attempting to
reconstruct the model informed us of the examinee’s ability to recognize
the origin of the paraphrased headline: the number of recognized sourc-
es of headline paraphrases ranged from 26 % to 88 %.
4.2.1. Different Degrees of Reception of Headlines by Younger Examinees
Younger examinees showed different stages of recognition of head-
lines from the corpus. According to the percentage of successful original
form reconstruction, results can be divided in four groups:
A. Maximum degree of recognition in which 75–100 % of examinees rec-
ognized a group of 15 paraphrases. This is 26 % of the corpus. Here
are some examples.7 The Dalmatian folk song title Šime is back / Vrati-
ja se Šime is recognized by 100 % of examinees in the headline Drago is
back / Vratija se Drago. The famous movie title Lassie come home / Las-
sie se vraća kući was recognized by 98 % of examinees in the headline
Kobe Bryant come home / Kobe Bryant se vraća kući. The old proverbs
Pay so you can mock / Plati pa se rugaj and Through the thorns to the
stars / Preko trnja do zvijezda are recognized by 90 % of the examinees
in the headlines Pay so you can swim / Plati pa se kupaj and Through
the mud to the stars / Kroz blato do zvijezda. 75 % of examinees knew
that the headline Spices against humanity / Začini protiv čovječnos-
ti comes from the phrase Crimes against Humanity / Zločini protiv
čovječnosti.
B. Second degree of recognition in which 50–74 % of examinees recog-
nized a group of 16 paraphrases which makes up 28 % of the corpus.
For example,8 examinees recognized the movie title Lost in trans-
lation / Izgubljeni u prijevodu in the headline Lost in the institution /
Izgubljeni u zavodu (73 %) and the Czech movie My Sweet Little Vil-
lage / Selo moje malo in the headline My sweet nuclear village / Selo moje
6 General awareness refers to internet usage, reading a newspaper, listening to the radio, watching tel-
evision …
7 All examples are in Appendix 1.
8 For other examples see Appendix 1.
