Titulky a podtitulky v novinovém zpravodajství Analýza novinových titulků v the Guardian (prosinec 2005 - únor 2006)

Bc. Lucie Bedřichová

Master's thesis

Headlines and Subheadlines in Newspaper Reporting Based on Discourse Analysis of Newspaper Articles in the Guardian (December 2005 - February 2006)

Abstract:

Media communication has been in the forefront of attention in linguistic research in recent decades. A conventional way of conveying messages in newspaper reporting has developed. However, the means of expression utilized in this type of communication vary considerably from source to source. Another factor which has to be mentioned is the constant influx of new ways of expression. Headlines have gradually developed through a cycle. More than a century ago, headlines with multiple decks were used. They caused problems both for readers and headline writers. Consequently, they almost disappeared. The tendency to reduce length of articles led to the revival of subheadlines at the end of the twentieth century. In the first chapter, the source material is introduced, including the representation of topic categories. The Guardian, British quality newspaper, has been chosen as the source of material for analysis and a corpus has been collected over a period of three months (December 2005 February 2006). The following chapter analyses headlines in terms of their grammatical and semantic structure. The third chapter deals with subheadlines and its aim is to account for their frequent occurrence in the source material. Semantic interrelatedness of headlines and subheadlines is regarded as a key to the functions of subheadlines. In the analysis, news values which tend to recur in the newspaper language have been taken into consideration.

Keywords

Newspaper reporting, Guardian, headline, subheadline, structure, semantic analysis, interface headline versus subheadline

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 30. 6. 2006

Thesis defence

• Date of defence: 6. 9. 2006

Masaryk University

Faculty of Arts

Master programme / field:
Philology / English Language and Literature