A study of null constituents in American news articles
Other Title(s)
العناصر المصفرة في المقالات الأخبارية الأميريكية
Joint Authors
Mahmud, Iyad Hamid
Idan, Hibah Ahmad
Source
Journal of Diyala for Humanities Researches
Issue
Vol. 2021, Issue 87، ج. 2 (31 Mar. 2021), pp.733-761, 29 p.
Publisher
University of Diyala College of Education for Human Sciences
Publication Date
2021-03-31
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
29
Main Subjects
Languages & Comparative Literature
Topics
Abstract EN
Like other registers, American journalistic texts, including newspapers, are characterized by certain textual and stylistic features.
They often have their own organization, wording, choice of vocabulary, syntactic structures, etc.
News writers usually tend to manipulate language to achieve their own goals.
They often use special expressions to shape or frame readers' emotions and ideologies into certain direction, to achieve certain effects that can help to change their attitude.
To achieve their aims, news writers may use various devices.
They may even deviate from language norms to attract reader's attention.
Among the textual syntactic devices used in newspaper are null constituents.
This paper is an attempt to study null constituents in selected news articles quoted from five American newspapers: New York Times, The Washington Post, The wall street Journal, USA Today, and Houston Chronicle.
The study aims at finding out the extent to which null constituents are employed in these articles, the purposes behind using them as well as finding out the most and least frequent types of these constituents.
The results of analyzing the selected articles show that that Cnull and Auxnull are the most frequent null constituents in the headlines of news articles.
As for the body of the articles, the results show that S null is the most frequent null constituent in the body of news articles.
Auxnull has been found to be the least frequent in the body of news articles.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Idan, Hibah Ahmad& Mahmud, Iyad Hamid. 2021. A study of null constituents in American news articles. Journal of Diyala for Humanities Researches،Vol. 2021, no. 87، ج. 2, pp.733-761.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1308165
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Idan, Hibah Ahmad& Mahmud, Iyad Hamid. A study of null constituents in American news articles. Journal of Diyala for Humanities Researches No. 87, p. 2 (2021), pp.733-761.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1308165
American Medical Association (AMA)
Idan, Hibah Ahmad& Mahmud, Iyad Hamid. A study of null constituents in American news articles. Journal of Diyala for Humanities Researches. 2021. Vol. 2021, no. 87، ج. 2, pp.733-761.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1308165
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
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Record ID
BIM-1308165