Tenses in newspaper headlines

Abstract

This work deals with the occurrence of English tenses in newspaper headlines. The aim is to compare the usage of tenses, what they express and to come to a conclusion as to which tense is the most frequent. The data needed for the research are collected from four English broadsheets, The Times, The Independent, The Guardian and The Telegraph. The analysis consists of 100 headlines chosen randomly from the broadsheets and used for the purpose of this work.