Abstract
The article in hand studies word choices used in the headlines of Pakistani English newspapers’ news depicting crime against women. To spotlight the masked ideology implied in them the researcher has selected three newspapers—The Nation, Dawn & The News. He applies Halliday’s transitivity as research tool. The analysis focuses on investigating how men and women are represented in the headlines, and what different roles are assigned to them by the newspapers. It also highlights the ideology underpinned in the discursive lexical choices and rhetorical devices used in them. It shows how covertly the newspapers arouse the emotions of their readers to attract their attention and influence their opinion making process.
Highlights
To spotlight the masked ideology implied in them the researcher has selected three newspapers—The Nation, Dawn & The News
The analysis focuses on investigating how men and women are represented in the headlines, and what different roles are assigned to them by the newspapers. It highlights the ideology underpinned in the discursive lexical choices and rhetorical devices used in them
It shows how covertly the newspapers arouse the emotions of their readers to attract their attention and influence their opinion making process
Summary
A man can make his voice to be heard, or accept/challenge other’s voice when he knows how to use lexes, forms and grammatical structures of a language in a meaningful way. Different newspapers employ different lexes, forms and grammatical structures, so they depict variant world views of the same happening. In the capitalist world of today the newspapers sell their commodities to win profit They employ language to run their business, and language is blurred with the desires and aims of those who use it (Bloor & Bloor, 1995). A soft news is understood by the readers It is a negative news; language used in it is always striking and eye-catching. The readers read the headline first, and the news story. Goldstein (2011) says that a headline plays the role of a forerunner to a news text. Conboy (2010) says that a headline serves three functions: (i) it gives to the reader a brief summary of the news text; (ii) it attracts the reader; and (iii) it has an initial indicator of the news content. Reah (2002, p. 13) says that a headline is “a unique type of text that consists of a range of functions that dictate its shape, content, and structure, and it operates within a range of restrictions that limit the freedom of the writer”. Ifantidou (2009) says that the important aims and purposes of headline are to catch attention, present the main points of the news, tell importance of the news and express the publisher’s identity
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