Linguistic Features and Newsworthiness: an Analysis of News style
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English. In this paper, we present a preliminary study on the style of headlines in order to evaluate the correlation between linguistic features and newsworthiness. Our hypothesis is that each particular linguistic form or stylistic variation can be motivated by the purpose of encoding a certain newsworthiness value. To discover the correlations between newsworthiness and linguistic features, we perform an analysis on the basis of characteristics considered indicative of a shared communicative function and of discriminating factors for headlines. Italiano. Questo contributo descrive uno studio preliminare sullo stile dei titoli nelle notizie, al fine di valutare la correlazione tra gli aspetti linguistici e il valore delle notizie. La nostra ipotesi è che ogni particolare forma linguistica o variazione stilistica possa essere motivata dall’obiettivo di codificare un certo valore di notiziabilità. Al fine di analizzare la correlazione tra il valore delle notizie e gli aspetti linguistici, effettuiamo un‘analisi sulla base delle caratteristiche considerate indicative di una funzione comunicativa condivisa e di fattori discriminanti per i titoli.
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