Analysis Of Headlines Research Articles

Social Actors’ Representations in Newspaper Headlines on Domestic Violence against Men and Women in Sub-Saharan, Africa

Domestic violence is a pervasive issue in Sub-Saharan Africa, shaped by socio-cultural norms, economic disparities, and systemic inequalities. Media representations of domestic violence, particularly through newspaper headlines, play a significant role in shaping public perceptions and responses to this pressing societal issue. This study conducts a comparative analysis of social actors’ representation in newspaper headlines of domestic violence against men and women in Sub-Saharan Africa. Through a discursive analysis, the paper explores the representation of the victims, perpetrators, and authorities, across various newspapers within the regions. The findings from the analysis of headlines in three African regions show a pronounced media focus on victims rather than perpetrators in the headlines. Additionally, the inclusion of OTHERS enriches the narrative, with Western Africa showing the highest. Furthermore, the analysis reveals distinct patterns in role allocation, with perpetrators often depicted as active agents and conversely, sometimes represented as passive agents, shifting the narrative to victims' experiences and suffering. The study also highlights regional differences, with Eastern Africa less frequently activating perpetrators in headlines. Finally, the use of nomination, categorization, and collectivization in headlines adds depth, emphasizes collective efforts, and highlights the prevalence of domestic violence, although sometimes at the expense of individual experiences. Keywords: media representations, social actors, domestic violence, men and women

Analyzing Headline Framing in the 2019 Presidential Election Media Coverage

This study aims to analyze the headline coverage of Jawa Pos and Kompas newspapers on the April 16 and April 18, 2019 editions, during the Indonesian Presidential and Vice Presidential Election. Employing a qualitative descriptive method, the research focuses on structured observation and writing processes, incorporating Robert N. Entman's framing analysis theory. The findings indicate that both Jawa Pos and Kompas exhibit impartiality towards the presidential candidates, presenting neither bias towards candidate pairs nor indications of favoritism. This neutrality is discerned through a lack of elements reflecting preference in the news coverage provided by both newspapers. The study contributes to the understanding of media dynamics in shaping perceptions during crucial political events. Highlights : The study explores the framing of headlines in Jawa Pos and Kompas during the 2019 Presidential Election, shedding light on media portrayal of political events. Notable findings reveal a lack of bias or preference towards any candidate pair, showcasing media neutrality in reporting the election. Utilizing Robert N. Entman's framing analysis theory, the research offers insights into the nuanced dynamics of media influence on public perception during significant political moments. Keywords: Election Framing, Media Neutrality, Presidential Election, Headline Analysis, Robert N. Entman

Data Extraction, Visualization, and Storytelling: A Case Study in Headline Analysis on "The Hongkong News" with Deep Learning

Data Extraction, Visualization, and Storytelling: A Case Study in Headline Analysis on "The Hongkong News" with Deep Learning

It’s a pandemic! Critical discourse analysis of headlines and leads about Covid 19 and their translation from English to Portuguese on BBC News website

It’s a pandemic! Critical discourse analysis of headlines and leads about Covid 19 and their translation from English to Portuguese on BBC News website

Nudging a Pseudo‐Science Towards a Science—The Role of Statistics in a Rainfall Enhancement Trial in Oman

SummaryAlthough cloud seeding is a commonly used and plausible method for rainfall enhancement, its practical efficacy has not been established for seeding of convective clouds with hygroscopic materials. Other methods of rainfall enhancement are viewed as much less plausible. Thus, although increased electrical charge has been shown to enhance precipitation in cloud chamber experiments, exactly how ionisation of clouds can increase rainfall in the open atmosphere remains conjectural. A trial of the efficacy of ionisation for rainfall enhancement in the Hajar Mountains of Oman was carried out over 2013–2018. This paper provides some background to this non‐mainstream approach to increasing rainfall, showing how statistical modelling of rainfall data might be used to nudge rainfall enhancement via ionisation towards a more scientifically acceptable status. Analysis of the data collected in the trial shows that ionisation led to a statistically significant enhancement in positive rainfall in gauges located up to 70 km downwind of the ionisers. A headline analysis specified prior to commencement of the trial resulted in an estimate of 16.23% enhancement relative to rainfall that would have fallen without any ionisation, while a more sophisticated after the event analysis increased this estimate to 17.64%.

Decoding the wordplay: Speech act analysis of headlines predicting the future

Present article attempts to analyze the role of the pragmatic markers or illocutionary force indicating devices in the speech acts of prediction. The headlines play a significant role in making a news story readable and approaching large number of audience. The headlines used in the present article were taken from CNN website. These headlines cover a variety of stories related with Pakistan. As the headlines communicate more than what is said they have been treated as speech acts. Searle (1969) defines speech act as a minimum unit of communication which is illocutionary in nature and creates an impact on the mind of the reader. Keeping, this definition in view, the headlines are speech acts that affect the readers. Current study is limited to the headlines that are related to prediction or forecasting the future state of affairs.The detailed analysis of the speech acts finds that the interpretation of the headlines depends on the language devices which help in shaping the illocutionary functions of the speech acts in collaboration with the context. It has also been found that the headlines use negative words more often than the positive ones in an attempt to take the reeaders to the detailed stories.

Prensa digital en tiempos de la COVID-19: análisis lingüístico de los titulares publicados en ÁVILARED.

La situación de inestabilidad social y sanitaria advenida por la enfermedad COVID-19 ha supuesto la inclusión obligada de contenidos informativos sobre esta cuestión de salud y sus consecuencias en la prensa. Este trabajo se aproxima a una investigación que desea dar a conocer la codificación lingüística de los titulares de noticias publicados en el principal periódico digital de la ciudad de Ávila (España) ⸻Ávilared⸻, por el escaso número de trabajos que estudian los titulares de prensa en papel (Zorrilla, 1996; Nadal Palazón, 2012), que son menos aún sobre los que hay en soporte digital. En este sentido, avanzamos con una descripción de las particularidades formales de los titulares digitales, ya que esta “nueva prensa es tan joven que no tiene ni teoría, ni historia, ni manual actualizado de sus innovaciones” (Fogel y Patiño, 2007, p .7). El análisis, basado en un corpus de 90 titulares publicados durante todo el período de estado de alarma en España, atiende a siete elementos formales; a saber, la bimembración, la estructura nominal, el empleo de expresiones numéricas, la impersonalización, el inicio con verbo, la aparición del condicional “de rumor” y la omisión de cualquier categoría gramatical. Se demuestra la divergencia de algunos planteamientos resultantes de análisis de titulares de prensa en papel.

Disrupting a Canadian Prairie Fantasy and Constructing Racial Otherness: An Analysis of News Media Coverage of Trevis Smith’s Criminal HIV Non-Disclosure Case

This paper studies how HIV criminalization is portrayed in the mainstream Canadian press by examining news representations of Trevis Smith. Smith’s case is the most reported case of criminal HIV non-disclosure in Canadian history. Our analysis is based on a corpus of 271 articles written about Smith between 2005 and 2012. Our analysis shows that coverage of Smith’s case is distinct from reportage of other criminal HIV non-disclosure cases because he was a well-known Black athlete playing for the Saskatchewan Roughriders at the time of his criminal charge. We argue that news articles represent Smith as a particular kind of threatening racialized “other” through forms of writing that link crime reporting with sports reporting. Our analysis of headlines and quotation patterns emphasizes how news articles construct Smith as a blameworthy outsider and produce Canada as an imagined white settler nation.

Analysing headlines as a way of downsizing news corpora: Evidence from an Arabic–English comparable corpus of newspaper articles

AbstractThis study examines whether a qualitative analysis of news headlines produces complementary, convergent, or dissonant findings with a quantitative analysis of the full news story. Headlines are among the most important parts of a news story and its summary. This study investigates the construction of Qaddafi in the headlines of two newspapers before and during the 2011 Libyan civil war. This is based on a sub-corpus of headlines that was taken from a 6.5-million-word corpus of two newspapers; one published in English; The Guardian, and the other in Arabic; Asharq Al-Awsat from 2009 to 2011. The analysis of the headlines has produced complementary and convergent findings with the corpus analysis and suggests that the 2011 Libyan civil war represents a turning point on how Qaddafi is represented in the investigated newspapers. This study concludes that analysing headlines proves to be a good down-sampling option to reduce large news corpora to a workable amount of data.

The Informativity of Publicistic Texts of the XVIII Century in N. I. Novikov's Journals

The article deals with the stylistic specificity of journal text of the second half of the XVIII century, published by N. I. Novikov. The author identifies linguistic and compositional features in the comparison with the modern style model of publicism. The author analysed the dominant features of the texts: dialogicality, educational function, and the synthesis of pedagogical and publicistic discourse. The study focuses on the stylistic uniqueness of the titles and emphasizes that the specificity of N. I. Novikov’s journalistic language was determined by his linguistic personality, as well as by the target settings of informing the reader. The research method included analyses of thematic, compositional, factual, and modal types of information content of the media text. A semantic and stylistic analysis of headlines made it possible to define the following types: plot, nominative-ascertaining, genre, spatial, precedent, and address headlines, which had an informative function and penetrating boundaries. Analysing the expressive resources of the texts, the author observed the specifics and typical use of Novikov’s idiostyle. The strengthening compositional element of the analysed texts is the image of a real individual author, implemented in various textual images and actualised in the context of the stylistic effect of dialogicality. The field of application of the research results includes stylistics and rhetoric.

An Investigation into Methods of Newspaper Headline Analysis

An Investigation into Methods of Newspaper Headline Analysis

An Explorative Study on ‘How media portrays an abrupt political hot issue regarding presidential election’ - Through an analysis of headlines on ‘National Intelligence Service Scandal’ −

본 연구는 대통령 선거와 같은 중요한 정치 이벤트가 있는 기간에 특히 국정원 사건과 같이 선거 결과에 결정적인 영향을 미칠 수 있는 돌발적 변수가 등장했을 때, 언론이 그 이슈를 어떻게 보도했는지를 관련 기사의 제목 분석을 통해 살펴보았다. 연구 결과 다음과 같은 사실을 확인하였다. 첫째, 비록 그 수는 많지 않았지만, 국정원 사건과 같이 정확한 정보의 전달이 무엇보다 중요한 사건의 보도에서도 핵심정보를 숨기고 독자의 관심을 끌려는 의도로 붙여진 ‘관심유도형’ 제목이 사용되고 있었다. 둘째, 의미전달이 불명료했거나, 인용을 오남용했거나, 지나치게 선정적이어서 적절한 제목으로 볼 수 없는 제목이 상당수 사용되고 있었다. 셋째, 각 언론사의 정파적 입장이 제목에 그대로 반영되고 있었다. 결론적으로 당시 국내 주요 언론들이 국정원 관련 사건을 보도함에 있어서 저널리즘의 기본 원칙을 상당히 훼손했음을 확인할 수 있었다.

Impact Measures of the Article Headlines-Factual Proposition in the Delfi.lt Portal

The object of the article is article headlines of the internet news portal Delfi.lt: factual statements containing the mentioning of a person by their name, surname or pseudonym. A headline is perceived as a complex representative unit, where a complex means, namely, employing accompanying notes and illustrations, and is used to achieve its main functions: to inform and affect. The aim of the article is to identify the effect of factual statements employed in headlines, which the statements have on the person mentioned and how they serve in drawing the readers’ attention. The material for the analysis was collected from the internet news portal Delfi.lt. A total of 191 headlines including the illustrations were looked into. The analysis comprised not only the evaluation of the headlines but also the articles in their entirety, including illustrations and commentaries. The qualitative analysis of headlines as factual statements was carried out in three aspects: description of a person, naming the action performed by the person, and the relationship of the person and the illustration. The research revealed that the headlines of the internet news portal Delfi.lt often employ a person as a means of drawing the readers’ attention as well as illustrations as a means of conveying visual information complementing the headlines. It turned out that in the headlines taking the form of a factual statement, the readers’ attention is mostly drawn by the information of negative nature where the accompanying expressive illustrations present well- known persons, mainly Lithuanian politicians, businessmen, and sportsmen. Descriptions of a person exert no influence on the popularity of the article in cases where people well known to society are referred to but are of particular importance when dealing with much less known people. Expressions in the past simple tense are attractive to the readers since the expressions provide a possibility, based on the facts presented, to design potential consequences on one’s own. Expressive headlines with accompanying expressive illustrations, where the presented scene does not only specify the idea of the headline but also complements it with intriguing meanings, enjoy the highest popularity. Therefore, headlines and illustrations kindle the readers’ emotions and encourage them to interpret their own meanings.

Analysis of Headlines in Written Press

Analysis of Headlines in Written Press

El inmigrante mediático. Representaciones en prensa española

The media immigrant. Representations in the Spanish press. This article focuses on the analysis of headlines about immigration in the Spanish press (El Mundo and El Pais, July 2006). Based on the principles of critical discourse analysis and employing a methodology for analysis and taxonomy of functional linguistic the representation of immigrants is analyzed as social actors in the Spanish territory. In this regard, both lexical mechanisms selection and categorizations such as types of roles and verbal processes are taken into account. The corpus analysis shows that sociodiscursive representation of immigration in the Spanish press is influenced by mechanisms of emphasis or mitigation and by the relationship with Spain as a deictic centre.

Expressional Analysis of Headlines in Press Report Articles of Yomiuri’ : From a viewpoint of expressional technique through comparing with ‘Mainichi’ and ‘Asahi’

Expressional Analysis of Headlines in Press Report Articles of Yomiuri’ : From a viewpoint of expressional technique through comparing with ‘Mainichi’ and ‘Asahi’

An Analysis of Headlines of Translated News Magazine Articles

An Analysis of Headlines of Translated News Magazine Articles

Translation or transformation? A case study of language and ideology in the Taiwanese press

Adopting the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach, this study analyzes and discusses the news report related to Taiwan’s first lady Wu Shuchen’s interview with the media which appeared in two ideologically opposed newspapers, i.e. the pro-reunification United Daily News and the pro-independence Liberty Times. Both news articles are translated from an identical English text. However, based on analysis of headlines, editorial deletion and addition, syntactic and lexical variations, as well as stylistic differences in paragraph/thematic combination, we have found that noticeable changes are made by the two translated Chinese versions. We argue that these transformations and differences found in the two Chinese texts are not arbitrary, but rather are ideologically motivated, that is, they reflect and construct the underlying opposed ideologies between the two newspapers.

Jan Seversz prints a Chronicle

The Cronycke van Hollandt Zeeland en Vrieslant, Leiden: Jan Seversz, 1517, usually referred to as the Divisiekroniek, is a welcome object for bibliographical analysis. Having been printed from two fairly small stocks of worn type, it allows of type analysis; and having headlines on most pages, it allows of headline analysis as well. The analyses show the printing to have proceeded from the outside of a quire to the inside, the principle being that two successive outer formes were printed first, and were then perfected in the same order before the process was repeated with the next two sheets. The book was cast off, and two compositors were at work, each with his own stock of type and two skeletons, and the type can be shown to have been set in the order in which it was machined. The book is illustrated with numerous woodblocks and, like the text, these betray a passion for armorials, thus suggesting that the author may have had a hand in their selection. About 1530 a supplement taken from Jan van Doesborch's Cronike van Brabant of that year was added and a few sheets were reset. The woodcuts employed in these suggest that Willem Vorsterman is a more likely candidate for their provision than Jan van Doesborch, though Seversz may have remained in control. This hypothesis also removes a supposed anomaly from the oeuvre of Lucas van Leyden. Finally a copy of another Seversz imprint, the Byenboeck of 1515, in Leiden University Library, shows a series of offsets confirming that this book was printed according to the same system as the Divisiekroniek.