Analysis of the structure of scientific news headlines in online newspapers
Other Title(s)
تحليل البنية المعلوماتية للعناوين الإخبارية في المجلات الإلكترونية
Author
Source
Journal of the College of Education for Women
Issue
Vol. 30, Issue 4 (31 Dec. 2019), pp.19-28, 10 p.
Publisher
University of Baghdad College of Education for Women
Publication Date
2019-12-31
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Languages & Comparative Literature
Abstract EN
Newspaper headlines are described as compressed and ambiguous pieces of discourse that represent the bodies of the articles.
Their main function is to provide the readers with an informative message they would have no prior idea about.
Ifantidou (2009) claims that the function of a headline is to get the readers’ attention rather than providing information because it does not have to represent the whole of the article it refers to.
This paper aims at examining this hypothesis in relation to scientific news headlines reported by a number of news agencies.
The paper follows Halliday (1967) information structure theory by applying it on ten selected headlines; each two headlines represent one scientific discovery reported by different news agencies.
One of them is presented by the most popular news agency on science; National Geographic then it is compared to one of the well-known news agencies like BBC, Reuters or Yahoo.
The results showed that scientific news headlines are more informative than being just catchy headlines.
It is also found that National Geographic news agency is more informative than any other agency because it is specialized in science.
It is concluded that the more new information units a headline includes the less ambiguous it is for the readers.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Yunus, Lina Layth. 2019. Analysis of the structure of scientific news headlines in online newspapers. Journal of the College of Education for Women،Vol. 30, no. 4, pp.19-28.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-918700
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Yunus, Lina Layth. Analysis of the structure of scientific news headlines in online newspapers. Journal of the College of Education for Women Vol. 30, no. 4 (Dec. 2019), pp.19-28.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-918700
American Medical Association (AMA)
Yunus, Lina Layth. Analysis of the structure of scientific news headlines in online newspapers. Journal of the College of Education for Women. 2019. Vol. 30, no. 4, pp.19-28.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-918700
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 28
Record ID
BIM-918700