The Analysis of Pragmatic Presupposition in English News Headlines

DOI

10.2991/isss-16.2016.76How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Pragmatic presupposition; English news headlines; application; functions

Abstract

Faced with massive news information, news readers hardly have enough time or energy to read all of them. It is news headlines that help them get the most useful and interesting information out of the flooded information. As the essential part of news, headlines aim to summarize the main content in concise language, attract readers’ eyeballs and stimulate the enthusiasm of reading, which requires headlines of conciseness, vividness and attractiveness.While, pragmatic presupposition can just make it satisfied, and it’s an effective device for news headlines writing. This thesis attempts to analyze the application of pragmatic presupposition in English news headlines, providing a new perspective to appreciate news headlines and helping readers comprehend news headlines in a profound way.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Tian Dong
AU  - Pingping Shao
PY  - 2016/05
DA  - 2016/05
TI  - The Analysis of Pragmatic Presupposition in English News Headlines
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Social Science (ISSS 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 323
EP  - 326
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/isss-16.2016.76
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