Research On The Language Of Headlines Of Korean News Reports

As one of the indispensable parts of news report,titles are regarded as the most concise words revealing,evaluating and organizing the report.Meanwhile,with relative independence and integrality,titles have various expression forms different from the natural sentences,so is the titles of Korean news reports.The particular expression of titles will sure make it difficult to be understood,especially to the non-native Korean language learners.For a long time,Korean linguistic experts focus their studies on the natural sentences in the article while neglecting the titles.The few existing studies are aimed at standardizing or improving the title writings from the native language speaker's points other than assisting the language learners to better understanding the titles.In view of this fact,e thesis will target at the titles of news reports in Korea and try to explore the characteristics of the titles from the perspective of grammar,combining with the three major methods of transforming the natural sentences to the title sentences.The aim is to help the non-native Korean learners to improve the capacity of interpreting news titles.The paper is divided into five parts.The introduction briefly discusses the research scope and contents of this paper,explains the status and shortcomings of the present studies,and presents the purpose,the significance and the major research methods of this paper.Chapter Two introduces the methods of transforming to the title sentences---to analyze the ellipsis in title sentences in terms of the ellipsis of component.The component ellipsis of title sentences can be divided into ellipsis of key elements of notional meanings and that of grammar elements.The ellipsis of key elements of notional meanings includes the ellipsis of subjects,objects,predicates,attributes or adverbials,while the ellipsis of grammar elements includes the ellipsis of case particle and auxiliary particle.Based on the above analysis,the identification and restoration of ellipsis will be discussed.The emphasis is put on the analysis of identification and restoration of ellipsis of subjects,objects and partial adverbials:(1)the key to identify compelling ellipsis is to understand the semantic structure of objects;(2)the generation of compelling ellipsis relies on the internal and external linguistic factors.The internal linguistic factor means the context of the report while the external linguistic factor means to deduce the speaking environment on the basis of the report or by the help of the routine experiences and knowledge.This chapter also illustrates the internal and external linguistic factors to affect the ellipsis of component.Chapter Three analyzes the special methods of sentence formation---nominal expressions,which is related to the methods of transforming to the title sentences and can reflect the character of discourse markers in titles.Based on the previous studies,it illustrates the concept and characteristics of nominal expressions.The characteristics of nominal expressions are(1)the object of sentence is composed of non-predicate elements.When using,the adhering element of the nominal expression disappears.Sometimes there is auxiliary word after a nominal phrase.(2)the syntax relations is realized by word order and logical relations.(3)there is no one-to-one correspondence between the property of word and grammar elements.(4)though the title expression is as simple and clear as the ellipsis,the two are different because of the relative independence and integrality.After analyzing the concept and characteristics of the nominal expressions,the formation of simple sentences and complex sentences will be discussed.In the simple sentences,means to convert sentence elements into nominal expressions include:(1)extracting the notional elements,(2)replace the notional elements and(3)by use of punctuation.Complex sentences can be divided into comprehensive sentence and coordinate sentence.Nominal expression conversion in comprehensive sentences involves how to insert sub-clause into main clause.Usually the ways to dissolve the problem is: converting nominal expression in sub-clause?establish relevancy with main clause by ways of direst inserting,noun verbal replacement or usage of punctuations?converting the main clause into nominal expressions.In coordinate sentences,the main issue is how to combine sub-clauses.The major resolving is to use punctuations after nominal conversions.Chapter Four analyzes the use of punctuations in title sentence.It firstly discusses the discourse marker function of comma in "A,B"-type titles,then explains single quotation marks used in titles to express the functions of quotation,emphasis,specific reference,rhetoric marks,etc.and suspension points to show the functions of partial quotation,intermittence and pause of intonation,pause of enumeration,ellipsis of enumeration,ellipsis of repetition,clue of topics,setting "blank" and implication of logical relationship among sentences,and introduces the functions and usages of double quotation marks,hyphen,wavy line and question mark.Chapter Five is the conclusion part which summarizes the study.The thesis tries to make some breakthroughs on the basis or previous studies to help the Korean learner improve their capacities of interpreting various titles.The breakthrough can be grouped in three aspects.Firstly,the study methods.Previous studies mainly focus on examples which put more attention on descriptions of title.This thesis manage to combine the basic static syntax,sentence structures and dynamic,realistic titles,using both description and explanation,comparing title languages and natural sentences,to analyze the subject of tile systematically.Secondly,suggesting resolving methods after raising issues.Previous studies always put forwards the linguistic phenomenon of element ellipsis or nominal expression without systematical analysis.The thesis manages to make up the shortage,and further more,suggests some concrete principles and methods to identify and restore element ellipsis,etc.Thirdly,discovering new linguistic phenomenon and facts.For instance,the marker function of comma in "A,B"-type titles,function of single quotation,hyphen,etc.Finally,some shortages are listed in the chapter,which expect help to improve.