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Abstract
Newspaper headlines are discourse units that can be read and analysed as parts of the news stories. They are capital tools used by editors to expose and convey their ideas to the reader. Since headlines are the first thing a reader may read in a newspaper, they are usually written in a very careful and concise language. The present thesis pragmalinguistically analyses the selected English newspaper headlines using the descriptive approach so as to trace the features that characterise the persuasive language used in writing these headlines. It provides a pragmalinguistic analysis of a hundred headlines equally selected from The Egyptian Gazette and Al- Ahram Weekly from Egypt and The Washington Post and The New York Times from the United States of America. The thesis consists of an introduction, four chapters, a conclusion, references and an appendix. Chapter one is an introduction that offers an entry to the thesis. Chapter two is devoted to methodology whereas chapter three is devoted to reviewing literature. Chapter four presents a pragmalinguistic analysis of the selected Egyptian and American data. Chapter five offers the results and discusses them. Then, there is a conclusion that concludes the thesis and proposes some recommendations and suggestions for further studies. There is a reference section and an appendix that is added at the end of the thesis containing the selected newspaper headlines for analysis. The thesis adopts Grice (1989) theory of Conversational Implicature for the pragmatic analysis. The linguistic analysis is based on some linguistic models namely; Pehar (2004), Abbot (1981), Garst and Bernstein (1961), and Westley (1953).The thesis shows that the newspaper headlines have some common pragmatic and linguistic features.