The newspaper style and its peculiarities

Sub-styles: ●Brief-news items; ●Headlines; ●Advertisements.

The aim is to influence the reader on certain matter or issues.

A) Brief-new items.

Aim: to inform readers given on the facts without giving comments. Voc-ry neutral and common literary. Syntactically: the shorter the article is the more complex its syntactical structure. Inf-n is presented according to the following rule: 5-w & h-patterns (it means5 q-ns starting with “W” (What? When? Why? and 1 “H” How?)

Features: ●The use of cliché; ●standard phrases; ●dif-nt SD; ●careful choice of w-s & avoidance of ambiguity.

B) Headlines.

F-ns: ● to catch the reader’s attention; ● to inform.

Structurally headlines are:

­ Full declarative sent-s

­ Interrogative sent-s

­ Rhetorical q-ns

­ Nominative sent-s

­ Elliptical sent-s (●predicate is omitted; ●subject -//-; ●predicate + subj are omitted)

­ Complex sent-s

­ Sent-s which are based on SD to produce a strong emotional effect.

­ The use of short w-s instead of their long systems. Aim – to safe space + sound more dramatic.

Verb changes. Here we observe:

●Pr. S. is used in the headline instead of Perfect or Cont.

●Past Participle indicates passive construction.

●Inf-ve is used to indicate a future action.

●deletion of articles & personal pronouns.

Ex. Queen to open a hospital àThe queen is going to (will) open a new hospital.

C) Advertisements

Types:

●classified – inf-n is arranged according to subject-matter into separate section & each section has an appropriate name.

Features:

– Mostly neutral voc-ry with rare usage of emotionally colored w-s.

– Fixed elliptical sent-s without articles & punctuation marks omitted. Feature: brevity.

●non-classified – observe the variety of lng forms & the reader’s or listener’s attention is attracted by every possible means: typographical, graphical & stylistic.

D) Editorial ‑ a newspaper article in which an editor gives the newspaper opinion about current issues. The aim is to influence the reader by giving interpretation of certain facts & prove the reader that it is the only correct one.

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