The Communicative Functions of Nominal Group Expressions in Selected Nigerian Newspaper Headlines

An Empirical Study of the Communicative Goals Impacting Nominal Expressions

Headlines in Newspaper Editorials : A Contrastive Study

Newspaper editorials constitute a part of media discourse, which is an extremely important field of research in both intercultural rhetoric analysis and EFL/ESL studies. Specifically, certain features of editorial headlines and also their important role in monitoring and directing readers' attention have made the interface between the linguistic analysis of newspaper editorial headlines and tea...

On newspaper headlines as relevance optimizers

This paper suggests an explanatory functional characterization of newspaper headlines. Couched within Sperber and Wilson’s (1986) relevance theory, the paper makes the claim that headlines are designed to optimize the relevance of their stories for their readers: Headlines provide the readers with the optimal ratio between contextual effect and processing effort, and direct readers to construct...

Newspaper Headlines Extraction from Microfilm Images

Automatic indexing is important for a digital library to provide digitized manuscripts of old document images and their electronic text. As an essential step in creating such a system, this paper discusses the issue of extracting headlines from old newspaper microfilms. Most research on document layout analysis has largely assumed relatively clean images. However microfilm images of old newspap...

modernist poetics as reflected in the poetry of selected modernist poets

فن شعر (poetics) که پیش از این به معنای مطالعه ی شعر و شیوه های آن بود در قرن بیستم در مفهوم گسترده به نظریه ی ادبی و مشخصه هایی که سبب پیدایش ادبیات است، اطلاق می شود. نوگرایی (modernism) بیش از آنکه از نقطه نظر زمانی دارای اهمیت باشد، گویای زمینه های فکری و اجتماعی است که تحولاتی بنیادین را در هنر و ادبیات رقم زد. تی. اس. الیوت، تی. ئی. هولم و ازرا پاوند از مهمترین نظریه پردازان نوگرایی هستند...