An analysis of indian english news headlines

Abstract

News Headlines (NHs) are of the most creative uses of natural languages in a media text. An NH is the frontline of a news article. Specific characteristics make NHs standout: for instance, article omission, use of active verbs, dropping the copula to save space and to attract the reader's attention to the most significant words, etc. Some research has been done on linguistic analysis of British English NH, Hindi- Urdu NHs, but hardly any work has been conducted on IndENH. This paper attempts to analyze Indian English newspaper headlines (IndENH), and aims to contribute to the accuracy of News Headline parsing. This study determines the linguistic features of the IndENH, to improve the quality of the parsed output of NHs. This paper covers sentence construction, tense, punctuation marks, metaphors, etc. for linguistic analysis. Keywords: Indian English news headlines, Parsing, standard English, linguistic analysis. © 2020 GLOCAL Conference Proceedings. All rights reserved.