Presupposition and Nominalisation in Headlinese: A Critical Analysis of Framing Devices in Journalistic Discourse

• Autores: Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska
• Localización: Discourses in co(n)text: the many faces of specialised discourse / Magdalena Zabielska (ed. lit.), Emilia Wasikiewicz-Firlej (ed. lit.), Anna Szcezepaniak-Kozak (ed. lit.), 2015, ISBN 978-1-4438-7419-9, págs. 134-161
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The present study explores the properties of headline style from the perspective of journalistic strategies that compress and frame information.

    It focuses on how headline editors tend to use presuppositions and nominalisations in news headlines to influence the readers' representations of socio-political reality. Both presupposition and nominalisalion can be used to obscure the relations between political actors, to background responsibility or to induce acceptance. A range of strategic applications of presuppositions and nominalisations is illustrated with selected examples from a sample of 400 headlines excerpted from one of the most visited English-language newspaper sites The Daily Mail in 2012. The analysis shows the main ways of framing the welfare state, immigration, child abuse and public spending, pointing to "unfairly" used presuppositions and coercive uses of selected nominals. The study is envisioned as a critical interrogation of headline style, which is regarded as an outcome of a specialised professional practice in the context of present-day journalism.