ASSIGNMENT

STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE NEWS

Submitted To: Dr. Sajjid Ahmad

Submitted by: SADIA TARIQ

Roll No: 17891

M.PHIL LINGUISTICS (SEMESTER I)

RIPHAH INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, FAISALABAD CAMPUS

 Stylistically analyse the following news item.

Headline
Allegations by minister 'whose own degree is fake'
resulted in PIA Europe ban: Bilawal
Detailed news is given below.

Analysis: Headline Full news detail

Graphological features:

Text size Normal, Bold Normal

Use of punctuation Colon Yes

Use of capitalization first letter, two proper Yes

noun Bilawal & Europe
Acronyms
Lexical features:

Use of 1st form Nil Wants,

Use of 2nd Resulted Suspended, accused, barred, failed and

killed
Use of 3rd form Nil Selected, accused. Warned, issued,

Use of infinitive Nil sell, fly, to operate, to sit, to realise etc.

Use of nouns
Use of present perfect tense
Use of past perfect tense
Bilawal, ban, degree, Minister, degree, Pakistan, airline, flag,
minister, etc. press, lies. Etc. 89
Nil Is selected, are accused, are considered and
required.
Nil Had accused, warned

Ing form Targeting including seeking etc

Use of adjective Fake Fake, dubious, responsible, current etc

Use of spatial deixis Nil In Lahore, in new yark, in karachi, in the

bloc of, on floor of the house
Use of temporal deixis Nil On Wednesday, after last week, on
Tuesday
Use of preposition In, by To, off, of , with, in etc.

Use of conjunctions Nil And ,that,

Use of pronouns Whose, own He, its ,any, whose

Use of article Nil The, a, an

Use of Acronyms PIA PIA, PTI, PPP

Use of nominalization Allegations Certification, revelation, authorization,

parliament, government
Use of will Nil Will be only once

Use of determiner Nil Its, their etc

Use of passive voice Nil Yes, past and present both

Use of auxiliaries Is Is, are, had was

Use of models Nil Will

Use of urduized words Nil Nil

1) Informational due to 1) Informational due to more use of nouns

more use of nouns 2) persuasive/ Argumentative Due to
2) explicit as nominal is infinitive
Discourse features
used 3) impersonal due to passive
3) impersonal as direct 4) explicit as nominal is used
speech is used 5) contextual as deixis are used

CONCLUSION
After reading the given news headline and its details some features have been found after
analyzing stylistically. The features are stated as under;

 1: It has been observed that the news is more informational as about 90

nouns with many adjectives have been used.

 2: Another aspect of its being explicit is that it has used many

nominalizations.

 3: The news is found contextual as well, when many temporal or spatial

deixis are examined in the text.

 4: The use of infinitive clearly shows that the news has another stylistic

feature that makes it argumentative and persuasive.

 5: Some passives have also been utilized that is its impersonal features

 6: In headline a clause has been used in inverted commas in direct form of

speech that means it is the statement of the speaker not of the paper. It is

used to make the news impartial and un biased.