Romanic, Germanic and Oriental languages
PRAGMATIC PECULIARITIES OF THE HEADLINES OF MODERN BRITISH AND AMERICAN WEB-BASED MEDIA
Published 2018-05-17
Keywords
- journalistic text,
- pragmatic function,
- illocutionary,
- affirmative speech act,
- interrogative speech act
Abstract
The article deals with analyzing pragmatic properties of the headlines of modern British and American web-based media. The types of the most characteristic statements used in the position of headlines of web-based media texts and the nature of the author’s intentions are determined.