Headlines in literary and scientific texts

Abstract EN

This research aims to understand categories of headlines.

Linguistically, they are recognized by using certain grammatical structures and lexical items.

According to (Quirk et al.1985: 992), there are three main kinds of verbal clauses, namely, finite clause, nonfinite clause, and verbless clause.

The verbless clauses have been classified as nonverbal headlines, in terms of the phrases of the headlines, nonverbal headlines were written using short phrases, they actually provide the writers with a kind of a linguistic device that can be used at word or phrase level to the rhetorical devices, the selected headlines have been analyzed in terms the emerging rhetorical devices such as parallelism, the head often analyzed into elements asthe reference of the head, It might be an adjective, an adverb and aprepositional phrases.

This research also differentiates the block language from minor sentences, exclamations and juxtaposition.

Headlines often use extremely short words in unusual ways as lexical items, the omission of articles and the omission of auxiliary verbs to be are trigged in block language as the logical sentence are driven by dynamic verb.

Finally in pragmaticsthe headline is viewed as a communication rather than a solely linguistic phenomena".