Kritička analiza diskursa u naslovima internetskih novinskih izvora

This paper presents a short review of Critical Discourse Analysis and presents some general findings about the language of online news headlines. The paper first summarizes the theoretical and methodological elements of Critical Discourse Analysis as an approach to the study of language in use. Then it follows with a section on news and media discourse, and briefly details aspects of newspaper discourse and the specifics of news discourse in an online environment. The research in the paper is a case study of a small sample size of news articles from some of the most popular Croatian and British English sources. The analysis concerns itself with the level of coherence between the headline and the text, specific linguistic items used and the hidden ideological slant. The conclusion is that all types of newspapers, tabloid, semi-tabloid, and quality newspapers, feature specific linguistic items such as puns, alliteration, word-play and jargon which is connected to the respective ideologies of the papers in question regarding representation of people and events