Abstract
Newspaper headlines have a familiar and conventional linguistic structure not unlike telegrams in their brevity. Here we shall discuss their function in press reports, and in particular how they present the ideology of the newspaper. By ideology is meant the system of beliefs about society which underlie the reporting of news.
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Freeborn, D., French, P., Langford, D. (1986). Variety and style in written English — I. Reporting the news. In: Varieties of English. Studies in English Language. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18134-6_8
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