英语新闻标题的特点 [2]
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关键词:Englishheadlinefeature英语新闻标题 特点
jumps pages, the original head will be changed into a jump head which uses different words from original one to express the same meaning.
e.g. Pentagen Plans
System to Flight
Russia Satellites
(original)
U.S.Plans Weapon
Against Satellites
(jump head)
2.2 Categories according to their meanings
2.2.1 Strait headline
This kind of headline tells us strait about the subjects of news. This is the most common one and is easy to understand.
(1)e.g.1 Railroad Workers Strike in Argentina.
(2)e.g.2 Man Jailed for Murder
(3)e.g.3 Oil Tanker Fire
2.2.2 Questioning headline
Question marks often be seen in this kind of headlines but most of them do not have meanings of questioning. They often give a clue of possibility or writer’s doubt about the reality of some facts.
(1)e.g. Oil Price to Rise?
(2)e.g. New Cabinet Today?
(3)e.g. Jones Planned to Kill Bush?
(4)e.g. Police Allowed Jail Break?
2.2.3 Feature headline
It is often to use feature headline when a piece of news is unusual or readers will be quite interested in it. Such headlines are not easy to understand,sometimes the whole news should be read.
(1)e.g. Down in the Mouth,News for Dentists.
This report is about a kind of vaccine, which is studied out and will be used for preventing teeth decay.
(2)e.g.、The Man Who Reign over UK’s Queen
Reign means rule over and it is only used for a queen or a king. So the connection of “man” and “reign” may get readers confused, then they may be eager to find why. Not until the whole news are read. They find the man is just a captain of a ship named Queen Mary.
2.2.4. Oration headline
This kind of headline can be divided into:
(ⅰ)Use of sayings as headlines
e.g. “We Owe Our Lives to Our Pilot”
(ⅱ)Quote words from interviewers or reporters or other people heard by writers.
(1)e.g. “We Have to Save Our People”
(2)e.g. “We won’t Quit”
(ⅲ)Choose one sentence,some words or one word from the whole news as a headline.
(1)e.g. I Have A Dream
(2)e.g. Mugwump Britain
“Mugwump Britain” criticize Britain is a double-dealer. She at one hand keeps a special relationship with U.S. but at the other hand she claims to be aside with west Europe.
(ⅳ) Some words in a headline with quotation marks are usually not their original meanings.
e.g. Norse Invasion
The headline does not indicate the invasion by north Europe in ancient. It really tells that Norway men go shopping and touring in a large group as invasion. So this so called invasion is not its original meaning.
3.Features of using vocabularies in headlines
Headlines of news tend to use special words which we all know in daily but may get confused when meet them in news.
3.1 Short words are often used.
Editors disgust long words badly which not only take up lines but also seemed ugly. For the sake of nice and balance,editors like short words to generalize news.
e.g. aid-assistance foe -opponent; enemy
bid-attempt nab-capture
pact-agreement wed -marry
probe-investigation rap-accusation, charge
rout-defeat, completely set-ready
“It has been lasting several years to use short words in news headlines. Mncken,an American linguist,said ‘ it is the outstanding characteristic of using very short words in headlines.’ in his work ‘American English’. Similar examples as above are so many in modern English newspapers.”[1] p48
“It is worth saying that single syllables beginning with explode are used more for its shortness and power,
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