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Tel, Anniek (2020)

Article omission in headlines: A comparison between the physical and digital version of a newspaper

Bachelor thesis | Taalwetenschap (BA)

This paper presents a study of article omission in two types of headlines, focusing on the differences between article omission in printed headlines and article omission in digital headlines. The study is carried out on a corpus of 120 news items collected from ‘De Volkskrant’, with half of the material from the physical paper and the other half from the corresponding digital news items. The research reflects on earlier findings in the field of article omission and presents new findings regarding the differences between article omission in physical and digital headlines and regarding other determiners that can be omitted as well. A theory about shifting the focus of investigation to the realization of articles instead of the omission thereof, initiated by Oosterhof and Rawoens (2017), is further elaborated.

Headlines

Newspaper

Digital communication

Article omission

Determiners

Noun phrases

Dutch

Author

Tel, Anniek

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Taal en Cognitie

Supervisors

Lipták, Anikó

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en