A Descriptive Studyon Language Used in Cinema News in English Newspaper

Abstract

The present thesis entitled “A Descriptive Study on Language Used in CinemaNews in English Newspaper” aims to find out the use ofsentence type, tense,aspect, voice and narration inthreenewspapers viz.TheCity Post,The Timesof India andThe New York Times.The researcher appliedthe judgmentalsampling procedure to select these newspapers. The datahave beencollectedfromJune 15 to 31, 2008 i.e.45 issues of cinema news, 15 from each of thenewspapers.The study presents the descriptive analysis of the mentionedcharacteristicsofthelanguage used in cinema news.Itwasfound that therewas not significant difference among the language of TCP, TTI and TNYT.The general difference wasseen in itssimplicity.Complex sentences werefound maximally usedin all the newspaperscovering more than half i.e.53.53% of the total sentences.In all the newspapers,Non-past tenseandsimpleaspect wasused highly covering63.41%and85.38%respectively.Activevoiceandindirect narration werein majority in cinema news covering 93.42%and75.90%ofthe total sentencesrespectively. Thethesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one is an introductory chapter. Itincludes general background,review of the related literature,objectives of thestudy,significance of the study anddefinition of the specific terms.Chaptertwodeals withthe methodology adopted to carry out the researchunder whichsources of data,sampling procedure,tools for data collection, process of datacollectionand limitations of the study are presented.Chapter threepresentsanalysis and interpretation of the data.In this section both statistical as well asdescriptiveapproach has been used.Chapter fourincorporatesfindingsandrecommendations of the research. The references and appendices form theconcluding part of the thesis.