Newspaper Style

Journalistic
Style

Newspaper Style
purposeful and thematic arrangement of interrelated lexical, phraseological and grammatical language means as a separate unity

Newspaper Style
that basically serves the purpose of informing and instructing the reader
in order to bring up-to-date, accurate, convincing information on current affairs

Newspaper Style
D.Crystal:
“… present a wider range of linguistically distinctive varieties than any other domain of language study”.

Newspaper Style
text
being compact and coherent

Newspaper Style
the last of the English literary styles
to be recognized

Newspaper Style
Features:
1) Special political and
economic terms
2) Non-term political vocabulary

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3) Newspaper clichés
4) Clichés

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5) Abbreviations of various types as
it helps to save space and time

Newspaper Style
read as individual letters:
WHO
World Health Organisation

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NATO /'neitou/
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
OPEC /'oupek/
Organisation of Petroleum Exploring Countries
acronyms

Newspaper Style
6) Abundant use of Neologisms
(Gorbymania)

“Weekly News”
First English Newspaper
May, 23, 1622

“London Gazzette”
The first
governmental newspaper
February, 5, 1666

“Daily Courants”
First English daily newspaper
March, 11, 1702

Earliest English Newspapers
Absence of any comments

headlines
title given to a news item
or
a newspaper article

headlines
Function:
to catch the readers’ attention
and at the same time

headlines
to provide brief information what the news that follows is about

headlines
Features:
as few words as possible
the words tend to be short and sound dramatic

headlines
Concise syntax
Full declarative sentences
Interrogative sentences
Rhetoric questions

headlines
Nominative sentences
Elliptical sentences
a) auxiliary verb omitted
b) subject omitted
c) subject and part of the
predicate omitted

headlines
Phrases with verbals
a) infinitive standing for “going to happen”
b) participial and gerundial constructions

headlines
Use of direct speech
Emotive syntax and vocabulary suggestive or approval or disapproval
Allusive use of self-expressions and sayings

headlines
Deformation of special terms
Use of stylistic devices producing strong emotional effect

Brief New Items
Function:
To inform the reader

Brief New Items
state facts without giving explicit comments

Brief New Items
Features:
1) absence of any individuality of expression and lack of emotional colouring

Brief New Items
2) matter-of-fact and stereotyped forms of expression

Brief New Items
3) peculiar syntactical structure as the reporter is obliged to be brief:
a) complex sentences with a developed system of clauses

Brief New Items
b) verbal constructions (infinitive, participial, gerundial);
and verbal noun constructions

Brief New Items
c) syntactical complexes, esp. the nominative with the infinitive, used to avoid mentioning the source of information

Brief New Items
d) attributive noun groups
e) special word order
f) occasional disregard for the sequence of tenses rule

Advertisements & Announcements
Function:
to inform the reader

Advertisements & Announcements
classified
non-classified

Advertisements & Announcements
Classified:
birth
marriages
death
in memoriam
business offers

Advertisements & Announcements
Features:
mostly neutral vocabulary with rare usage of
emotionally coloured words or phrases used with
the only purpose of attracting readers' attention

Advertisements & Announcements
fixed, often elliptical, pattern
telegram-like statements, with articles and punctuation marks omitted

Advertisements & Announcements
Non-classified
the variety of
language forms and
subject-matters

Articles
Feature article
Reports
Editorials

Articles
Function:
to influence the reader by giving an interpretation of certain facts

Articles
Features:
combination of different vocabulary strata

Articles
usage of emotionally coloured language elements,
both lexical and structural

Articles
accepted usage of colloquial words and expressions, slang, and professionalisms

Articles
usage of various stylistic devices but trite and
traditional in nature

Articles
traditional periphrases,
Wall Street (American financial circles),
Downing Street (the British Government),
Fleet Street (the London press),
the third world
(the remnant of the dated division of the world into three parts – socialist, capitalist and developing countries)