Transformed Precedent Phrases in the Headlines of Online Media Texts as Paratexts

Precedent phrases represent the utterances that are characterized by recognizability, reproducibility, as well as by an absolute cultural value for a certain linguocultural community. The research is focused on the precedent phrases, the semantics and/or the structure of which have been intentionally transformed with the aim to achieve a certain communicative effect. When being used in the headlines of online media texts, transformed precedent phrases manifest their threefold nature: they function as 1) "expressemes", 2) symbols of precedent phenomena, and 3) paratexts. The paper studies transformed precedent phrases in the headlines of American and British online media texts with the aim of exploring their peculiarities as paratexts.