- •Введение
- •Hard News us panel on iraq to recommend gradual pullback
- •30 November, 2006
- •30 November, 2006 migrant tide is too much, says field By Phillip Johnston and Toby Helm
- •Berezovsky tribute to 'brave and honourable' friend litvinenko
- •Soft News mortality rate would plunge without passive smoking
- •Don't blame job stress for high blood pressure
- •Britain’s population tops 60 million for first time
- •Official: men are terrible shoppers
- •Features
- •Blair savages critics over threat to civil liberties
- •A criminal absence of logic
- •The naked truth about bad tv
- •Bush’s american empire has gone way off track By Ron Ferguson
- •Now or never for allen to pick own time to go
- •By Dan Sabbagn
- •Smoking: it's goodbye to all that
- •Suicidal children need our help By Dr Tanya Byron
- •A cheerful guide to violence at the louvre
- •Japan’s monarchy wrestles with idea of happiness By Norimitsu Onishi
- •News analysis
- •Time critical: mention when in the 1st or 2nd paragraphs
- •Written in the third person
- •Additional information
- •Sentence length: no longer than 25 words
- •Is legalising drugs the only answer?
- •The Sunday Times, April 30, 2006
- •Despite Democratic victory, it's clear: us isn't leaving Iraq in a hurry
- •Deeper crisis, less us sway in iraq
- •Editorials
- •Why are fewer students choosing to study foreign languages at gcse? By Richard Garner
- •Is this enough?
- •Bush's eavesdropping
- •Hedging on hedge funds
- •Letters to the editor
- •End of road for car factory
- •Real men mustn’t grumble about emotions
- •World book day
- •Mersey cyclists
- •Confidence in city academies
- •Reviews
- •Forever eighties
- •The problem with all this immigration
- •Where’s the sin in giving money to educate the most unfortunate? By Charles Moore
- •Why medicine makes us feel worse
- •Orbituaries michael hartnack
- •Advertisement
- •Quality newspapers vs. Tabloid newspapers set 1. Litvinenko case
- •On kremlin boss’
- •Poisoned for writing dossier
- •Set 2. Chess prodigy child’s death
- •Young champion's mystery death fall shocks chess world
- •Chess champion may have been sleepwalking when she fell to her death from hotel balcony
- •Young british chess star
- •In hotel death plunge
- •Dad 'raped' chess girl
- •Set 3. Augusto pinochet’s death
- •Augusto pinochet, dictator who ruled by terror in chile, dies at 91
- •Chile's pinochet dies
- •Chile after pinochet
- •Dictators right and left
- •Spitting on the dead dictator
- •Pinochet: death of a friendly dictator
- •Set 4. Avril lavigne
- •Sorry avril sucks it up
- •Avril could be jailed for spitting
- •Avril to wed boifriend
- •Avril lavigne, unvarnished
- •Set 5. Royal family
- •My darling mama, an example to so many
- •Charles leads the birthday tributes
- •Introduction
- •Note that the word 'briton' is almost exclusively found in newspapers
- •6. Prince vows to back family
- •Stating the topic and the main idea of the article
- •Pedal power helps charity
- •Climate changes may extend tourist season
- •Spotting the rhemes to support the main idea
- •Britten’s adopted home honours him at last
- •Now shoppers can watch the news
- •Enter Chaplin, played by his granddaughter
- •Well behaved kids get award
- •Producing a summary of the article
- •Music lessons can improve vocabulary
- •Children 'trade ritalin for cds'
- •Making an inference
- •Teachers show how computers can help
- •Introduction to analysis
- •Rendering the article
- •Inference
- •Hussein divides iraq, even in death
- •Appendix 3
- •Теория жанров в русскоязычной
- •Специальной литературе
- •Жанры сми
- •Genre classifications: different traditions
- •Genre Classification
- •In the East-European Tradition
- •Библиография
- •Оглавление
Introduction
Stages of the theme analysis of a newspaper article:
State the headline of the article and what newspaper it is from.
State the topic/theme of the article.
State the main idea of the article.
Find/spot the rhemes to support the main idea.
Produce a summary of the article on the basis of the chosen rhemes.
Make an inference.
NEWSPAPER HEADLINES
Headline writers try to catch the reader's eye by using as few words as possible. The language headlines use is, consequently, unusual in a number of ways.
Grammar words like articles or auxiliary verbs are often left out, e.g. EARLY CUT FORECAST IN INTEREST RATES
A simple form of the verb is used, e.g. QUEEN OPENS HOSPITAL
TODAY
The infinitive is used to express the fact that something is going to happen in the future, e.g. PRESIDENT TO VISIT MINE
Newspaper headlines use a lot of distinctive vocabulary. They prefer words that are usually shorter and generally sound more dramatic than ordinary English words. The words marked *can be used either as nouns or verbs.
newspaper word meaning |
newspaper word |
meaning |
|
aid* |
help |
key |
essential, vital |
axe * |
cut, remove
|
link* |
connection
|
back |
support |
move * |
step towards a desired end |
bar* |
exclude, forbid |
ordeal |
painful experience |
bid* |
attempt |
oust |
push out |
blast |
explosion |
plea |
request |
blaze |
fire |
pledge * |
promise |
boost |
incentive, encourage |
ploy |
clever activity |
boss* head* |
manager, director |
poll* probe * |
election / public opinion survey investigation |
clash * |
dispute |
quit |
leave, resign |
curb * |
restraint, limit |
riddle |
mystery |
cut * |
reduction |
strife |
conflict |
drama |
tense situation |
talks |
discussions |
drive * |
campaign, effort |
threat |
danger |
gems |
jewels |
vow * |
promise |
go-ahead approval |
wed |
marry |
|
hit |
affect badly |
|
|
Newspaper headlines often use abbreviations, e.g. PM for Prime Minister, MP for Member of Parliament.
Some newspapers also enjoy making jokes in their headlines. They do this by playing with words or punning, e.g.
– A wet open air concert in London by the opera singer Luciano Pavarotti was described as: TORRENTIAL RAIN IN MOST ARIAS ['most areas']
– An announcement that a woman working at the Mars chocolate company had got an interesting new job was: WOMAN FROM MARS TO BE FIRST BRITON IN SPACE