THE HEADLINES IN US DAILY NEWSPAPERS: RESEARCH,GRAMMAR, LINGUISTIC STRUCTURES AND THEIR CONNOTATIVE EFFECTS ON READERS ACCORDING TO THEIR SENSATIONALISM AND INTEREST FOR READERS
- Doctoral student:
- ZABALETA URKIOLA JOSÉ IGNACIO
- Year:
- 1987
- University:
- BASQUE COUNTRY/EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA
- Director(s):
- Dr. Lindsay Churchill (Departamento de Sociología, Graduate Center del City University of New York. Tutor en la Universidad del País Vasco: Dr. Román Basurto)
- Description:
Date of reading: 01/12/1987
Board of Examiners:
NUÑEZ LADEVEZE LUIS (Chairperson)
WINICK CHARLES (Member)
GARMENDIA AGUIRREZABALAGA, FRANCISCO (Member)
GOENAGA MENDIZABAL PATXI (Member)
DIAZ MANCISIDOR ALBERTO (Secretary)Descriptors:
POLITICAL SCIENCE
LINGUISTICS
SYNCHRONIC LINGUISTICS
PUBLIC OPINION
PRESS
SYNTAX AND SYNTACTIC ANALYSISSummary:
THERE ARE FOUR AREAS OF RESEARCH WITH DIFFERENT METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES: FIRSTLY, A SUMMARY OF THE RESEARCH INTO THE PRESS MEDIUM IN THE USA; SECONDLY, GRAMMATICAL AND RESEARCH THEORY OF AND ABOUT HEADLINES IN THE US PRESS; THIRDLY, AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS (IN TERMS OF CONTENTS AND LINGUISTICS) OF FRONT PAGE HEADLINES IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS AND NEW YORK POST; AND FOURTHLY, LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS WITH AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES ABOUT SENSATIONALISM AND READERS' INTEREST PERCEIVED FROM DIFFERENT TYPES OF HEADLINE USING TANNENBAUM AND LYNCH'S SENDEX TECHNIQUE BASED ON THE SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL. THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED: THREE GENERAL RESEARCH QUESTIONS, SEVEN HYPOTHESES ABOUT FRONT PAGE HEADLINES FROM THE FOUR DAILY NEWSPAPERS MENTIONED ABOVE, AND FOUR HYPOTHESES ABOUT THE LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS.
THE WILCOXON MATCHED-PAIRS NON-PARAMETRIC TEST HAS BEEN USED FOR THE STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE TESTS.