The Peculiarities Of The Newspaper Article Titles In The English Newspaper Discourse

Abstract

Nowadays mass media, newspapers in particular, attract more and more readers. Unfortunately not everyone understands the content of the article in a proper way. It is connected with the fact that the authors use different stylistic devices to attract attention of the audience. Though, not all readers catch the idea properly. This paper is devoted to the main features of the newspaper titles of the English newspapers because they contain the main idea of the article, and if the audience doesn’t understand the purpose right then the article won’t have the success among the readers. The knowledge of the peculiarities of the newspaper titles makes it easy for the audience to clarify the message of the article. The newspaper title has the specific character reflecting the prominent features of the newspaper, namely its efficiency, a genre palette. One of the main tendencies of the language development in the modern high-quality newspapers is a tendency to information intensification, which is clearly expressed in the evolution of the newspaper genre system and in the titles of the newspapers. Several classifications of the newspaper articles have been regarded in this paper. Moreover, the main stylistic features and functional aspects have been revealed in the article.