The Use of Articles in English Newspaper Headlines

The newspapers are one of the most common ways how to obtain information about the world around us. However, to reach our interest it also needs to have a specific function, how to get our attention. From this reason, the language of the newspapers needs to be very specific and intentional. The main and important feature of the newspapers is the headlines. As far as the language of headlines is concerned, it needs to be very simple and effective. From this reason, it is very common that some features of the headline, which would be normally used in any other written text, could be omitted. The most believed parts of the headlines with a tendency to be omitted are determiners, especially the articles. This bachelor thesis deals with the analysis of the use of articles in British newspaper headlines and investigates the possible tendencies for article omission or any other regular or irregular patterns connected with the use of articles in headlines