Mehanizmi modifikacije ustaljenih izraza u novinskim naslovima na engleskom jeziku

Abstract

The present paper analyzes 109 modified fixed expressions excerpted from newspaper headlines published in online editions of New Scientist from January 2009 to January 2019. Namely, such multi-word units, in their original or modified forms, are primarily used in headlines with the aim to communicate information in a short and effective way (Silaški et al. 2009: 178). Therefore, the aims of the paper are: (a) to identify the mechanisms used in modifying these fixed expressions, (b) to determine the frequency of each mechanism in the corpus, (c) to investigate the extent to which such modifications are logically related to the main idea of the article, and (d) to identify the sources of these fixed expressions. In achieving these aims, interpretative and contextual methods of analysis are employed. The analysis has shown that these expressive linguistic units are extracted from various sources and modified in one of the five ways, with a number of cases where more than one mechanism is used. With regard to their logical connection to the main idea of the article, almost all the headlines can be considered more or less successfully modified.