“…Both tendencies have not only increased the importance and significance of scholarly titles, but also contributed in making them objects of scientific investigation. As testimony to this, the number of recent studies thereon has not only grown, but also fueled the use of the term “titleology.” [ 13 – 15 , 36 – 47 ] In particluar, linguistic analysis of titles in intra-disciplinary [ 9 , 48 , 49 ], interdisciplinary [ 5 , 10 , 24 , 29 , 50 – 54 ], and intercultural [ 55 , 56 ] context as well as between academic genres [ 30 ] have shown that, regarding syntax and surface characteristics, scholarly titles “vary and, at the time, display similarities across a number of factors and in several dimensions, such as structure, syntactic encoding, length, wording, use of punctuation marks, informativeness, functions, and information sequencing.” [ 13 ]…”