Lexical and Grammatical Features of English Nespaper Language
CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION 1
1. FUNCTION OF A HEADLINE 2
1.1 BLOCK LANGUAGE 3
2. AIMS AND METHOD 5
2.1 AIMS 5
2.2 METHOD 5
3. GRAMMAR IN HEADLINES 6
3.1 SENTENTIAL HEADLINES 6
3.1.1 SIMPLE SENTENCES 6
3.1.2 MULTIPLE SENTENCES 7
3.1.3 COMPOUND SENTENCES 8
3.1.4 COMPLEX SENTENCES 8
3.1.5 STATEMENTS 9
3.1.6 QUESTIONS 9
3.1.7 DIRECTIVES 9
3.1.8 EXCLAMATIONS 9
3.2 NON-SENTENTIAL HEADLINES 10
3.2.1 MINOR SENTENCES 10
3.2.2 NON-FINITE CLAUSES 11
3.2.3 PHRASES 11
3.2.3.1 NOUN PHRASES 12
3.2.3.2 ADJECTIVE PHRASES 13
3.2.3.3 ADVERB PHRASES 13
3.2.3.4 PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES 14
4. ELLIPSIS 15
4.1 MEDIAL ELLIPSIS 15
4.2 INITIAL ELLIPSIS 15
4.3 SITUATIONAL ELLIPSIS 16
4.4 STRUCTURAL ELLIPSIS 16
5. ANALYSIS OF COLLECTED HEADLINES 17
5.1 TABLOID NEWSPAPERS 17
5.2 BROADSHEET NEWSPAPERS 185.3 SENTENTIAL HEADLINES 18
5.4 SIMPLE SENTENCE IN HEADLINES 19
5.5 MULTIPLE SENTENCES IN HEADLINES 20
5.6 COMPOUND SENTENCES IN HEADLINES 21
5.7 COMPLEX SENTENCES IN HEADLINES 21
5.8 FUNCTIONAL HEADLINE TYPES IN HEADLINES 21
5.8.1 STATEMENTS 22
5.8.2 QUESTIONS 22
5.8.3 DIRECTIVES 23
5.8.4 FREQUENCY OF FUNCTIONAL HEADLINE TYPES 23
5.9 NON-SENTENTIAL HEADLINES 23
5.9.1 NON-FINITE CLAUSES IN HEADLINES 24
5.9.2 PHRASES IN HEADLINES 25
5.9.3 FREQUENCY OF NOMINAL HEADLINES 28
5.10 ELLIPSIS IN HEADLINES 29
6. CONCLUSION 31
7. RESUME 33
8. APPENDIX I-IXINTRODUCTION
A newspaper headline is often the only thing that readers read in a newspaper, or at least, it is the first thing that everyone notices in a newspaper. It serves as a guide for the reader that helps decide whether to continue on reading the whole report or to skip onto another one. Each headline should be a summary of the news which follows. A headline should be a sentence, and so it also should have a regular sentence structure containing a subject and a verb with the exception that headlines normally does not contain auxiliaries, pronouns, articles, or conjunctions. It means that only lexical, not grammatical words are used.
The major reason for
INTRODUCTION 1
1. FUNCTION OF A HEADLINE 2
1.1 BLOCK LANGUAGE 3
2. AIMS AND METHOD 5
2.1 AIMS 5
2.2 METHOD 5
3. GRAMMAR IN HEADLINES 6
3.1 SENTENTIAL HEADLINES 6
3.1.1 SIMPLE SENTENCES 6
3.1.2 MULTIPLE SENTENCES 7
3.1.3 COMPOUND SENTENCES 8
3.1.4 COMPLEX SENTENCES 8
3.1.5 STATEMENTS 9
3.1.6 QUESTIONS 9
3.1.7 DIRECTIVES 9
3.1.8 EXCLAMATIONS 9
3.2 NON-SENTENTIAL HEADLINES 10
3.2.1 MINOR SENTENCES 10
3.2.2 NON-FINITE CLAUSES 11
3.2.3 PHRASES 11
3.2.3.1 NOUN PHRASES 12
3.2.3.2 ADJECTIVE PHRASES 13
3.2.3.3 ADVERB PHRASES 13
3.2.3.4 PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES 14
4. ELLIPSIS 15
4.1 MEDIAL ELLIPSIS 15
4.2 INITIAL ELLIPSIS 15
4.3 SITUATIONAL ELLIPSIS 16
4.4 STRUCTURAL ELLIPSIS 16
5. ANALYSIS OF COLLECTED HEADLINES 17
5.1 TABLOID NEWSPAPERS 17
5.2 BROADSHEET NEWSPAPERS 185.3 SENTENTIAL HEADLINES 18
5.4 SIMPLE SENTENCE IN HEADLINES 19
5.5 MULTIPLE SENTENCES IN HEADLINES 20
5.6 COMPOUND SENTENCES IN HEADLINES 21
5.7 COMPLEX SENTENCES IN HEADLINES 21
5.8 FUNCTIONAL HEADLINE TYPES IN HEADLINES 21
5.8.1 STATEMENTS 22
5.8.2 QUESTIONS 22
5.8.3 DIRECTIVES 23
5.8.4 FREQUENCY OF FUNCTIONAL HEADLINE TYPES 23
5.9 NON-SENTENTIAL HEADLINES 23
5.9.1 NON-FINITE CLAUSES IN HEADLINES 24
5.9.2 PHRASES IN HEADLINES 25
5.9.3 FREQUENCY OF NOMINAL HEADLINES 28
5.10 ELLIPSIS IN HEADLINES 29
6. CONCLUSION 31
7. RESUME 33
8. APPENDIX I-IXINTRODUCTION
A newspaper headline is often the only thing that readers read in a newspaper, or at least, it is the first thing that everyone notices in a newspaper. It serves as a guide for the reader that helps decide whether to continue on reading the whole report or to skip onto another one. Each headline should be a summary of the news which follows. A headline should be a sentence, and so it also should have a regular sentence structure containing a subject and a verb with the exception that headlines normally does not contain auxiliaries, pronouns, articles, or conjunctions. It means that only lexical, not grammatical words are used.
The major reason for