The language of newspaper headlines

Abstract

This bachelor work deals with the language of newspaper headlines of contemporary British newspapers. The first part of this work expounds the principle of mass communication and defines the stylistic elements that are closely related to the theme of this work, and determines the distinctive linguistic features typical for the writing of headlines that are further developed in the body of this survey. This data is crucial for the following analysis. The Contemporary British newspapers described in this work are classified into two groups, which are further compared and contrasted. A brief insight into the history of newspaper headlines is introduced in order to confront the findings so as to trace the trends in newspaper reporting. Next, the analysis of randomly chosen newspaper headlines is described on the basis of the criteria defined in this work. The final part of this work summarises the current trends in newspaper headline writing by which contemporary British newspapers address their readers.