ISSN: 2360-7831

 International Journal of English Literature and Culture
 

International Journal of English Literature and Culture

Vol. 7(4), pp. 79-84, June, 2019

 ISSN: 2360-7831

DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2019.070

Review paper

This study investigates the role and importance of the meta-functions of language in the constructions and the understanding of the content and context of newspaper headlines in selected Nigerian National Dailies. Five (5) National Dailies were selected, namely; The Vanguard, The Guardian, The Sun, This Day, and Leadership newspapers. Two (2) newspaper headlines each were purposively selected from the five National Dailies for analysis. The study is a corpus based study and descriptive analysis was adopted for the study. It was discovered that most of the components of the meta-functions of language such as the ideational, the interpersonal, and the textual served as a guide for the construction of newspaper headlines in the Nigerian national dailies. It can be concluded that most of these dailies do not use conjunctions and references in most of their headlines. The study serves a guide to all who read newspapers to help understand the technicalities and modalities media practioners implore in the construction of newspaper headlines.

Key words: Meta-functions, Ideational, Interpersonal, Textual, Theme, Rheme

Cite This Article As: WADA, RS.,  WAPPA, JP., BITRUS, I (2019). An Analysis of the Meta-functions of Language of Selected Nigerian Newspaper Headlines. Inter.  J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 7(4): 79-84