Corpus-based Study of Identifying Verb Patterns Used in Pakistani Newspaper Headlines

Newspaper headlines are an important subgenre of media genre and enjoy much significance in news discourse. Headlines are ascribed different functions as they are the opening section to their respective text. This corpus-driven study strives to identify those verb patterns which have been used in Pa...

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Published in:Theory and practice in language studies 2020-02, Vol.10 (2), p.149-156
Main Authors: Din, Muhammad, Ghani, Mamuna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American newspapers
Analysis
Computer generated language analysis
Computerized corpora
Corpus analysis
Corpus linguistics
Cultural Context
English language
Genre
Grammar
Journalism
Language
Linguistics
Literature Reviews
Nouns
Personality Traits
Punctuation
Reading Processes
Research methodology
Researchers
Semantics
Studies
Syntax
Text structure
Verbs
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Summary:Newspaper headlines are an important subgenre of media genre and enjoy much significance in news discourse. Headlines are ascribed different functions as they are the opening section to their respective text. This corpus-driven study strives to identify those verb patterns which have been used in Pakistani newspaper headlines. To identify different verb patterns used in newspaper headlines, the researcher compiled a corpus of 3135 newspaper headlines consisting of 28646 words drawn from three on-line Pakistani English newspapers which include The Dawn, The Nation and The News. The researcher tagged this corpus by using the software TagAnt and analyzed this corpus with the help of corpus tool AntConc to identify the verb patterns used in these Pakistani English newspaper headlines. To this end, the researcher analyzed the compiled corpus in accordance with the POS Tags given by Tree Tagger Tag Set. This study has found different verb patterns which have been used in newspaper headlines.
ISSN:1799-2591
2053-0692
DOI:10.17507/tpls.1002.02