Abstract
As windows through which people get in touch with the world, English news headlines are extensively studied in both journalistic and linguistic fields. However, little literature has been found to approach their demonstrations and motivations behind. Cognitive Linguistics devotes itself to find out the motivations behind language demonstrations. From the perspective of prominence, one dimension of cognitive construal, this paper discusses the demonstrations and motivations of the news headlines of five different e-papers reporting the same news events. It is concluded that (1) different headlines in different e-papers give prominence to different parts of news events. (2) e-papers’ different attitudes towards the news events cognitively motivate the different demonstrations in terms of prominence.
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