Abstract
The Guardian editorial headline is viewed as a two-component structure punctuated with colons in which the first part names the topic and the second one provides its comment. The article examines the frequency and diversity of eight noun phrase patterns and gives structural and functional analysis of their constituents. The author studies how categorial features of nouns, adjectives, and prepositions manifest themselves on a phrase level. Three types of semantic relations between noun-noun components are defined. Two more aspects under consideration are complexity and coordination in noun phrases.
Highlights
A growing body of literature has studied news media applying various approaches and narrowing the research to particular genres, content features, or structural elements
The aim of our research is to further extend current knowledge of noun phrases and to identify typical patterns used in The Guardian editorial headlines with the detailed analysis of their structural and semantic features
The Guardian editorial headline consists of two parts punctuated with colons
Summary
A growing body of literature has studied news media applying various approaches and narrowing the research to particular genres, content features, or structural elements. An editorial represents the newspaper’s opinion on a variety of urgent topics and plays an important role in explaining, persuading, or criticizing a subject of particular public interest. Headlines, in their turn, attract the readership’s attention and introduce a piece of news in a concise way. We regard headlines as the first interaction between news writers and ISSN 2522-9281.
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