STYLISTIC FEATURES OF BRITISH NEWSPAPER HEADLINES IN THE DIACHRONIC ASPECT

Abstract

The paper focuses on the tendencies in the linguistic evolution of newspaper headlines in the diachronic aspect – of two time periods: the beginning of the 20th and the 21st centuries. The article considers the structural types of newspaper headlines, their stylistic composition and predominant expressive means. On the basis of the obtained results an attempt to identify the main pragmatic function of the excerpted headlines has been made.

Keywords

• media discourse
• newspaper headline
• expressive means
• pragmatic function
• diachronic aspect