EXPLORING SYNTAX AND STYLE IN ENGLISH ONLINE NEWS
Keywords:
syntax, style, online news, discourse analysis, media linguistics, stylistic devicesAbstract
The present study explores the syntactic and stylistic features of English online news texts within the framework of functional discourse analysis. In recent years, digital media has become a dominant platform for public communication, where linguistic choices play a crucial role in shaping readers’ perception and interpretation of events (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014). This research focuses on how lexical and syntactic devices such as inversion, parallelism, evaluative vocabulary, and nominalization function to achieve persuasive and informative effects in online news discourse. A corpus of news articles from BBC News and The Guardian was analyzed to identify the most frequent and contextually significant stylistic patterns
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