英美报刊标题介绍

Headline form

FLUSH LEFT HEAD The flush left head is a two- or three-line head with each line set flush left. The lines do not have to be equal in width or set full. The white space at the right is considered enhancing, because it allows “air” into the otherwise stuffy column spaces. Flush left is the most commonly used head today.

In a flush left headline, every word ta kes up one line and begins at the very left. That is the common form of modern English newspapers. The following example can show you what is a flush left headline.

e.g. IMF

WILL

HAVE

SAY

Drop form headline It looks like a ladder. There are several lines in it and the following line draws back several letters from the above one. Beauty and nice are its merits.

e.g. FBI Agrees to Cease

Its Illegal Surveillance

Of the Research Institute

Inverted Pyramid headline It is also popular for nice looking. It forms a Pyramid-looking headline. The first line fills in the entire column, then uses less space as it gets to the bottom.

e.g. Factory Walkout

Threat Over

Sacking

Double headline This kind of headline is used mostly for the report of big events. It has two lines: one is main headline and the other auxiliary headline.

(1) e.g.1 Expect to Go to U.S.

Castro to Free Thousands of Prisoners

(2) e.g.2 It Isn't the Cow That Are Mad

It's the People That Are going Mad

Centered Headline:this type of headline is centered above the column.

Functions of Headlines

Summarizing the story ; Arousing the reader’s interest ; Beautifying the newspaper page; Indicating how much importance each news item has

Features of headlines

Grammatical features Lexical features Rhetorical features

stylistic features of English news articl e The stylistic feature is

subdivided into three aspects -phonological features and graphological features, lexical feature and syntax feature, and semantic feature.