Abstract
News media play an important role in shaping public opinion. Because news is a representation of the world in language (Fowler, 1991:4), this research investigates the manner in which headlines of the top news websites mirror The New Suez Canal, which is a great project and a symbol of Egyptian national pride, on the sixth and the seventh of August 2015, which mark the inauguration of the New Suez Canal. This research investigates the linguistic structures of headlines in the top news websites. The variety of syntactic and lexical features of the sample headlines is analyzed. To describe the syntactic features of headlines, three categories are investigated: the structure, the function and the complexity of the headlines. To describe the lexical features of headlines, individual words under different categories of nouns, verbs, articles, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, pronouns, prepositions are examined. This paper incorporates critical discourse analysis as a method for analysis.
Key words: The New Suez Canal, media, headlines, syntactic features, lexical features
الملخص البحث:
الملخص العربي وسائل الإعلام الإخبارية تلعب دورا هاما في تشکيل الرأي العام و لأن الأخبار تصور العالم من خلال اللغة (فولر1991) فهذا البحث يتحرى طريقة تصوير عناوين الأخبار في مواقع الانترنت الشهيرة لقناة السويس الجديدة والتي يعتبرها المصريون رمز للفخر الوطني المصري وذلک في السادس و السابع من أغسطس عام2015 حيث تم افتتاح قناة السويس الجديدة.هذا البحث يفحص الترکيب اللغوي لعناوين الأخبار في تلک المواقع الشهيرة حيث تم تحليل العديد من السمات الترکيبية و الخاصة بمعاني تلک العناوين و من أجل وصف الترکيب لتلک العناوين تم تحليل ثلاث فئات و هي البناء و الوظيفة و مدى تعقد العنوان و لوصف السمات الخاصة بالمعنى فقد تم فحص الکلمات المفردة التي تدخل في نطاق الأسماء و الأفعال و الأدوات و الصفات و الحال و الروابط و الضمائر و حروف الجر. هذا البحث يتضمن التحليل النقدي للخطاب کأداة للفحص |
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