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标题：Corpus-based Study of Identifying Verb Patterns Used in Pakistani Newspaper Headlines
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作者：Muhammad Din ; Mamuna Ghani
期刊名称：Theory and Practice in Language Studies
印刷版ISSN：1799-2591
出版年度：2020
卷号：10
期号：2
页码：149-156
DOI：10.17507/tpls.1002.02
出版社：Academy Publisher
摘要：Newspaper headlines are an important subgenre of media genre and enjoy much significance in news discourse. Headlines are ascribed different functions as they are the opening section to their respective text. This corpus-driven study strives to identify those verb patterns which have been used in Pakistani newspaper headlines. To identify different verb patterns used in newspaper headlines, the researcher compiled a corpus of 3135 newspaper headlines consisting of 28646 words drawn from three on-line Pakistani English newspapers which include The Dawn, The Nation and The News. The researcher tagged this corpus by using the software TagAnt and analyzed this corpus with the help of corpus tool AntConc to identify the verb patterns used in these Pakistani English newspaper headlines. To this end, the researcher analyzed the compiled corpus in accordance with the POS Tags given by Tree Tagger Tag Set. This study has found different verb patterns which have been used in newspaper headlines.
关键词：newspaper headlines;verb patterns;news discourse;corpus;language description