journalese

journalese
journalese
Some words and uses are peculiar to the language of newspaper articles and, more especially, newspaper headlines. Examples are probe for ‘investigation’ or ‘investigate’ (Hong Kong missing millions probe), quiz for ‘interrogate’ (Police quiz councillors over expenses fraud), package for ‘deal’ (Steel bosses offer new pay package), and swap for ‘transfer’ in the medical sense (Baby heart swap drama). Combinations of nouns in headlines (as in the last example), use of the present tense, and use of a to-infinitive to denote future time, are common features:

• Councillor planning action over go-go girl affair claim —Evening News (Edinburgh), 1994

• Sex cinema blaze man pleads guilty —Independent, 1995

• Premier to defy unions over £3.60 minimum wage —Daily Mail, 1998.

Puns, as the most concise form of written humour, feature prominently in headlines, e.g.

• Hirst's sheep give Britain art failure —Independent, 1998

(reporting an opinion poll which found that the ‘pickled sheep’ art of Damien Hirst was among least liked by British visitors to art galleries).

Modern English usage. 2014.

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  • journalese — noun Date: 1882 a style of writing held to be characteristic of newspapers …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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