Headlinese, Journalese and The Language of TV News

15 Março 2017, 12:00 • David Alan Prescott

Analysis of texts from the anthology dealing with the style of headlines in (primarily) British newspapers as well as the vocabulary and expressions used on rolling news services. Explanation of how expressions such as "at the top of the hour", "the minister was doorstepped" (TV News) or "cops nab villains" (written media) are a sort of micro-language that is understood but hardly used by today's native users of the English language, making it a sort of code that is difficult to enter for foreign users of English.