Cho, Youngsoon. 2011. A Corpus-Based Study on Korean Newspaper Headlines. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 36-4, 1075-1099. This study investigates headlines' linguistic characteristics based on corpora with reference to their parts of speech and final forms. Two corpora are exploited: One is built from some files in the Sejong tagged corpus (2009) and the other is from Korean five major newspapers. Analyzing frequencies of parts of speech of headlines and those of corresponding newspaper articles based on the first corpus revealed that nominals and symbols (or marks) are remarkably frequent in headlines unlike articles. Some in-depth investigations which were carried out by the categories of content words, symbols, and function words demonstrate the followings: Compared to the news reporting, nominals are increased in headlines but adjectives and verbs are decreased with bigger degree of decreasing found in verbs than in adjectives; Symbols are widely exploited for purposes of clearing information, emphasizing expressions, and assisting meaning recovery; Function words, which can be easily deleted, are retained when carrying hardly recoverable meanings and when performing some structural or emotional functions. Analyzing frequencies of six kinds of final forms of headlines based on the second corpus showed nominals, sentence endings, and connective endings are preferred as headlines' final forms in that order. From different degrees of preference in different sections we infer that headlines in the section are of a dry and emotion suppressing style, but those in the section are softer and show feelings more readily, and are in between in the degree. (Chonnam National University)
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Abstract 1. 머리말 2. 선행 연구와 말뭉치 2.1 표제어 연구 동향 2.2 조사 대상 말뭉치와 분석 도구 3. 품사 사용 3.1 체언, 용언, 수식언의 사용 3.2 기호 사용의 효과 3.3 기능어의 생략과 보존 4. 표제어의 종결 형태와 지면 5. 맺음말 참고문헌
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Newspaper headlinesFrequency of parts of speech in headlinesDeletion and retention of formsFinal forms of headlinesLiterary style of headlines