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A Corpus-based Analysis of English Newspaper
Headlines. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Sep 2008, Pages: 64
Recently using English newspapers as a useful
teaching tool for English has emerged among
educators due to its easy accessibility and wide
range of content. In this stream, in particular,
English headlines seem to be catchy in getting
learners interested and motivated.
This study shows the analysis of the headlines
by examining an actual sample corpus drawn from The
Korea Herald Headlines Corpus (KHC). In addition to
this, other corpora, the British National Corpus
(BNC) Sampler Written, the British National Corpus
(BNC) and a sample corpus drawn from The New York
Times Headlines Corpus (NHC) by Chung (2006) were
referred to for the purpose of comparisons.
The corpus was then analyzed using Wmatrix, a
software tool for corpus analysis and comparison.
Wmatrix processed not only part-of-speech tagging
using CLAWS POS tagger, but also semantic tagging
using UCREL Semantic Alalysis System (USAS). In fact
there are few discussions on the semantic analysis
of headlines while there are already some on the
linguistic analysis of headlines. Therefore, it
would be meaningful to look over the results of
semantic analysis.
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