Yusupov Oybek Nematjonovich Ahmedova Nigora Shavkatovna

 
Brief News Items 
The function of a brief news item is to inform the reader. It states only facts 
without giving comments. This is characterized by the absence of any individuality of 
expression and the almost complete lack of emotional colouring. 
It goes without saying that the bulk of the vocabulary used in newspaper writing is 
neutral and common literary. But apart from this, newspaper style has its specific 

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vocabulary features and is characterized by extensive use of special political and 
economic terms, non-term political vocabulary, newspaper clichés, abbreviations, 
neologisms, verbal constructions, attribute noun groups, syntactical complexes, 
specific word orders. 
Speaking about neologisms we may state, that neologisms are very common in 
newspaper vocabulary. The newspaper is very quick to react to any new development 
in the life of society, in science and technology. Neologisms make their way into the 
language of the newspaper very easily. E.g.: 
Sputnik, lunik, etc
. 
The vocabulary of brief news items is generally devoid of any emotional colouring. 
b) The Headline 
The headline is the title given to a news item or a newspaper article. The 
main function of the headline is to inform the reader briefly of what the news is about. 
Sometimes headlines contain elements of appraisal, i.e. they show the reporter’s or 
the paper’s attitude to the facts reported. English headlines are short and catching. In 
most of English and American newspapers sensational headlines are quite common.
Headlines contain emotionally coloured words and phrases. Furthermore, to 
attract the reader’s attention, headline writers often resort to a deliberate breaking-up 
set expressions, in particular fused set expressions, and deformation of special terms. 
The basic language peculiarities of headlines lie in their structure. Syntactically 
headlines lie in their structure. Syntactically headlines are very short sentences or 
phrases.