STRUCTURAL PARTICULARITIES OF NEWS HEADLINES
Keywords:
media discourse, news headlines, news content, structural patterns, diachronic perspectives, verb-less construction, contrastive perspectives.Abstract
This article highlights some specific and common structural features of news headlines in the English language. Headlines of news are considered as the most crucial element in media discourse to attract readers’ attention. Therefore, it has been always very challenging to understand the real meaning of news headlines for readers in a certain level because of having specific structural features of them in the content consisting with even known vocabulary. This work emphasizes the researches of Korean linguist, Hye-Kyung Lee’s structural analysis on American news headlines.
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