Nowadays mass media plays a crucial role in people's lives. Online newspapers constitute a
part of media discourse, which makes for extremely important bodies of text for the purposes
of research in discourse analysis. In news headlines, careful and sensitive use is made of
linguistic devices in order to make the headlines unique and different, influence the readers,
create trust for the newspaper, and, most importantly, invite and encourage the reader to
proceed to the whole story and the main body of the report/news report. In this spirit, this …

Nowadays mass media plays crucial roles in people's lives. Online newspapers constitute a
part of media discourse, which makes for extremely important bodies of text for the purposes
of research in discourse analysis. In news headlines, careful and sensitive use is made of
linguistic devices in order to make the headlines unique and different, influence the readers,
create trust for the newspaper, and, most importantly, invite and encourage the reader to
proceed to the whole story and the main body of the report/news report. In this spirit, this …