THE FUNCTIONING OF PARTICIPLES IN THE HEADLINES OF THE NEWS AND ANALYTICAL ARTICLES IN THE RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES

Abstract

The article deals with the use of Russian and English participles in the article headlines of two genres – informational and analytical. The function of the headline depends on the genre of the article. In the news articles the headlines state the main point while in analytical articles they should be expressive to attract the reader’s attention. The headlines of the news articles in the Russian language can be divided into 2 types – subjectival and subjectless. The authors of the news articles often use short participles with resultative meanings. The participles in the headings of the analytical articles are usually parts of transformed idioms, quotations, phraseological units. The participles in The English headlines are used as parts of attributive and adverbial structures, complex words and analytical verb forms. The main feature of the headlines in the English articles is ellipsis. It is used to make the headline shorter and more catchy for the reader. The elements to be omitted are usually the auxiliary “be” in the passive sentences and auxiliary verbs in other types.