Une analyse stylistiqur des titres a la une des journaux francophones
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2023
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Department of Foreign Languages, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
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The study identified and categorised the lexical features of the selected Francophone newspaper headlines. It analysed the syntactic structures of the selected Francophone newspaper headlines and also examined the interplay of the lexical choices and syntactic structures in constructing the headlines of the selected Francophone newspaper. This was done with a view to revealing how Francophone journalists deploy language when constructing headlines. This study used both primary and secondary sources of data. The primary source contained newspapers from four purposively selected Francophone countries in West Africa (Burkina Faso, Cȏte d’Ivoire, Senegal and Benin Republic). The Newspapers were selected over a period of a month to obtain data. The headlines from the selected newspapers are closely read and explicated in terms of their stylistic features. The secondary source includes books, journal articles and the Internet. The data collected were analyzed using Halliday and Matthiessen’s model of Systemic Functional Grammar. The results of the study showed that Francophone journalists make use lexical items such as verbs, adjectives, nouns and adverbs when constructing headlines. The study showed that lexemes used in the selected Francophone newspaper headlines are concise and cachy. At the level of syntactic structures, the study revealed that the journalists used five constituents to construct their headlines which are the noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, adjectival phrase and adverbial phrase. The journalists also presented the headlines in form of simple, declarative and affirmative sentences in present tense while few headlines are in compound and complex sentences. Furthermore, the study showed that the choice of lexeme by the Francophone journalists make the construction of their newspaper headlines simple and understandable. The study concluded that majority of the Francophone journalists make use of nominal and verbal forms in the linguistic stylistic process of constructing their headlines.
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Ogungbenro F.O. (2023) Une analyse stylistiqur des titres a la une des journaux francophones, Obafemi Awolowo University.