A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF HEADLINESE
Maria-Crina Herțeg
1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia, Romania
Abstract
The aim of this research was to analyse the structure and role of newspaper headlines and leads, as well as the linguistic devices that are used in journalese; these include a combination of lexical and grammatical devices such as reporting, the temporal axis of the headlines and the leads, heteroglossia, and phonological devices, substantiated by grammatical and lexical data collected from the corpus. The analysed headlines fall into two categories, nominal and verbal, and are characterised by the ellipsis of articles, emotional lexicon, the omission of auxiliaries, and copula verbs. The scope of the research covered several main aspects: the role of the headlines and the leads, the temporal organisation of the headlines and the leads, and the means of reporting. The lexical and grammatical information that was retrieved from the corpus was processed using theories and instruments from stylistics, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, media linguistics, and pragmatics. Qualitative and quantitative analyses were combined in this research.
Keywords: Journalese; Corpus linguistics; Media linguistics; Nominalisation; Reporting expressions.
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How to cite this paper: Herțeg, M.-C. (2023). A corpus-based analysis of headlinese. Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education – JoLIE, 16(2), 53–68. https://doi.org/10.29302/jolie.2023.16.2.4
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