This entry includes the Table of Contents and References cited for Local man loses pants, life.
Contents
| 1 Introduction | 1 |
| 1.1 Aim and scope | 1 |
| 1.2 Syntactic aspects | 2 |
| 2 Background | 2 |
| 2.1 Coordination and markedness | 3 |
| 2.2 The newspaper headline | 6 |
| 3 Material and method | 9 |
| 3.1 Online newspapers | 9 |
| 3.2 The countries | 10 |
| 3.3 The newspapers | 11 |
| 3.4 Australia | 12 |
| 3.5 The corpus | 13 |
| 3.6 Not included in the corpus | 15 |
| 4 Results and discussion | 16 |
| 4.1 By country | 16 |
| 4.2 By phrase type | 21 |
| 4.3 “Tabloid” vs. “serious” | 25 |
| 5 Summary and conclusions | 26 |
| 6 References | 28 |
| Appendix 1: The corpus | |
| Appendix 2: Email from Washington Post |
6 References
Baugh, Albert C. and Thomas Cable. 2002. A History of the English Language. 5th ed. Routledge: Abingdon.
Chalker, Sylvia and Edmund Weiner. 1994. Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
Greenbaum, Sidney and Randolph Quirk. 1990. A Student’s Grammar of the English Language. Pearson: Harlow.
Harrigan, Jane T. and Karen Brown Dunlap. 2004. The Editorial Eye. 2nd ed. Bedford/St. Martin’s: Boston.
Imicciulla, Linnea M. 2011. Factors Predicting the Use of Passive Voice in Newspaper Headlines. Unpublished PhD dissertation, Boston University.
Mårdh, Ingrid. 1980. Headlinese: On the Grammar of English Front Pages. Lund: CWK Gleerup/LiberLäromedel.
Websites referenced in the thesis (links functioning when checked on June 1, 2012):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide/h
http://www.bbc.co.uk/journalism/apps/tutor/html/commas/index.html
Websites of newspapers included in the corpus:
Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/
New York Post http://www.nypost.com
USA Today http://www.usatoday.com
Daily Mirror http://www.mirror.co.uk
Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk
The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk
The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk
The Australian http://www.theaustralian.com.au
The Age http://www.theage.com.au
Toronto Star http://www.thestar.com/
Calgary Sun http://www.calgarysun.com/
