Correlated clauses in news headlines: An application of the clause correlation process

The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze twenty (20) examples of correlated clauses in newspaper and magazine headlines published on the internet. Several studies have shown that this phenomenon is quite common in argumentative texts; however, correlated pairs have also been found to be frequent in expository texts, such as newspaper and magazine headlines. For this reason, it became interesting to investigate correlation in these text genres. The corpus data were taken from randomly selected news headlines published on the internet. Then, in order to describe and analyze them, the following criteria were used: 1) mobility of the correlated sentence; 2) context/theme of the news; 3) verbal ellipsis in the second sentence; 4) type of correlated sentence; 5) type of correlative pair; 6) headline format: quotation or not; 7) type of comparison in comparative correlatives; 8) sentence structure.

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