Producción e interpretación de los titulares en prensa: visión pragmática.

Abstract

The main concern of this paper is to deal with one of the elements that make up the structure of news stories, the headline, noting that this element should itself be critically analysed for the role it plays in written journalism. Focussing upon the data provided by British national newspaper articles, the study offers a description and exemplification of the grammar, discourse structure and function of headlines in the story as a whole. In order to illustrate this, I consider how contextual factors play a vital role in connection with the linguistic structures used in headlines and how headlines themselves function in their varied range of social contexts.