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Stylistic Features Of British Newspaper Headlines In The Diachronic Aspect
Stylistic Features Of British Newspaper Headlines In The Diachronic Aspect

Author(s): Alesia Shevtsova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies, Theory of Communication
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: media discourse; newspaper headline; expressive means; pragmatic function; diachronic aspect;

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the tendencies in the linguistic evolution of newspaper headlines in the diachronic aspect – of two time periods: the beginning of the 20th and the 21st centuries. The article considers the structural types of newspaper headlines, their stylistic composition and predominant expressive means. On the basis of the obtained results an attempt to identify the main pragmatic function of the excerpted headlines has been made

  • Issue Year: 5/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 66-76
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English