This paper describes a proposed document analysis system that aims at automatic indexing of digitized images of old newspaper microfilms. This is done by extracting news headlines from microfilm images. The headlines are then converted to machine readable text by OCR to serve as indices to the respective news articles. A major challenge to us is the poor image quality of the microfilm as most i...

The Reporting on Palm Oil Issues in Online Newspaper Headlines: A Pragmatic Analysis ABSTRACT Over a decade, the production of palm oil by Malaysia faces challenges from European Union countries. They accused that has caused hazard to environment, extinction orang utan and exploitation labourers. In return, Malaysian newspapers have written many articles clearing accusations. This study aims an...

Discourses on herding have focussed the "exact" representations of social actions itinerant herders who clash with farmers while grazing supposed cattle routes. Media coverage herdsmen-farmers conflict has deployed ideologically laden terms to represent as trespassing farmlands and foreigners trespassers. Using van Leeuwen's Representation Social Actions Actors model Martin White's Appraisal Fr...

This research is qualitative with a discourse analysis approach. The purpose of this study to describe the elements sentences contained in news headlines newspapers. data used form written text containing omission sentence elements. source was obtained through September 2022 edition SOLOPOS newspaper. collected by means documentation using reading and note-taking techniques. uses technique agih...

This study aims to examine the euphemisms employed by three Pakistani English-language newspapers, namely Dawn, The Express Tribune, and News International. also identify types functions of in English language newspapers. For this purpose, Random-sampling model was deployed select newspapers published Furthermore, purposive sampling is adopted make decision regarding selected 15 headlines posse...

1n October 1997, as I walked out of the international airport of Toronto (Ontario, Canada), my eyes caught the newspaper headlines announcing “State-wide School Teachers’ Strike’. Coming from India, this was nothing unusual. However, the next headline puzzled me. It read: “Joint Rally of Teachers and Parents.” It made no sense at all. How can the teachers and the parents join hands in a protest...

Headlines reading “Corruption Means the Poor Stay Poor in Oil-Rich State”[3] or “Millionaire Mullahs”[ 4] have become all too common. In fact, one is often hard pressed to pick up a reputable newspaper without some sort of corruption story on the politics, business, or even the sports pages. In countries developed and developing, large or small, market-oriented or otherwise, prominent politicia...