English newspaper style may be defined as a system of interrelated lexical, phraseological and grammatical means which is perceived by the community speaking the language as a separate unity that basically serves the purpose of informing and instructing the reader.
Since the primary function of newspaper style is to impart information, only printed matter serving this purpose comes under newspaper style proper. • • Such matter can be classed as: 1. brief news items and communiqués; 2. press reports (parliamentary, of court proceedings, etc. ); 3. articles purely informational in character; 4. advertisements and announcements.
Headlines Øinform the reader briefly of what the news that follows is about. Ø Syntactically headlines are very short sentences or phrases of a variety of patterns: • full declarative sentences; • interrogative sentences; • nominative sentences; • elliptical sentences;
• • • sentences with articles omitted; phrases with verbals; questions in the forms of statements; complex sentences; headlines including direct speech.
Brief news items ØInform the reader without giving comments. ØHas its specific vocabulary features: üspecial political and economic terms; ünon-term political vocabulary; ü 3. newspaper cliché; ü 4. abbreviations; ü 5. neologisms
ØAnd grammatical parameters: ücomplex sentences with a developed system of clauses; üverbal constructions; üsyntactical complexes; üattributive noun groups; üspecific word order.
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