SOCIAL FUNCTION OF NEWS ITEM IS:
to inform readers, listeners or viewers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.
Generic Structure :
- Newsworthy event(s) : Recount the event in a summary form
- Background events : Elaborate what happened, to whom, in what circumstances
- Sources : Comments by participants in witnesses to and authorities expert on the event
Language Features :
- short telegraphic information about story captured in headline
- generally using simple past tense
- use of material processes to retell the event
- using action verb,e.g : were,run,go,kill,etc
- using saying verbs,e.g : say,tell
- focus on circumstances
- use of projecting verbal processes in sources stages
How To Find The Information :
> what : to find what happening
> when : to find the time about event
> where : to find the places of the event
> who : everybody who involves in the event ; it can be victims,participants
> why : to find the couse of the event
> how : to find the way how the event happened
• There are some rules that an help to make newspaper headlines more comprehensible.
• The passive voice is used without the appropriate from of ‘’be’’.
• It is unusual to find complex fprms, generally the simple prent form id used.
• The present progressive tense is used, usually to describe something that is changing or developing, but the auxiliary verb is usually left out.
• To refer to the future, headlines often use the infinitive.
• Headlines are not alwasy complete sentences.
• The passive voice is used without the appropriate from of ‘’be’’.
• It is unusual to find complex fprms, generally the simple prent form id used.
• The present progressive tense is used, usually to describe something that is changing or developing, but the auxiliary verb is usually left out.
• To refer to the future, headlines often use the infinitive.
• Headlines are not alwasy complete sentences.
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