LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 7 : 10 October 2007
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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LANGUAGE OF HEADLINES IN KANNADA DAILIES
A Doctoral Dissertation

M. N. Leelavathi, Ph.D.

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Headline assumes all importance in a daily newspaper as a digest and condensation of the whole story. Many readers simply read the headlines to get their news. Headlines help or hamper the sale of a daily newspaper. There are many significant functions that the headlines perform for a daily newspaper.

This detailed Ph.D. dissertation on the use of headlines in Kannada daily newspapers describes and explains the use of headlines from wide-ranging points of view. Practical applications are also suggested.

This Dissertation is divided into 8 Chapters with separate notes on conclusions and references.

  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Nominal Headlines (Headlines with Noun Phrases)
  • Chapter 3: Verbal Headlines (Headlines with Verbal Phrases)
  • Chapter 4: Multi-deck headlines
  • Chapter 5: Punctuation Marks in Headlines
  • Chapter 6: Rhetoric Expressions in Headlines
  • Chapter 7: A Comparative Study of the Headlines from Prajavani, Kannada Prabha and Samyukta Karnataka
  • Chapter 8: Remarks on Some Headlines
  • Conclusions
  • References

The author, M. N. Leelavathi, is a leading second and foreign language teacher of Kannada and also an insightful teacher of Kannada literature and prose works.

This dissertation will be found highly useful to understand the form and function of headlines in newspapers in any Indian language, even as it helps and guides copywriting, editing, and efficient communication of news in Indian languages daily newspapers.

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