SEMANTIC AMBIGUITIES IN VANGUARD AND DAILY TRUST NEWSPAPER HEADLINES

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SUMMARY

The headline is the most interesting part of the newspaper, because newspapers headlines are considered to have their own characteristics and status in news discourse (Bell, 2010:199). Headlines are very important in the news. They summarize news stories. (Fairclough, 1995:21) states that grammatical oddity”. The headline is a unique type of text. It has range of “headlines have distinctive syntactic properties, which make them a functions that specifically dictate its shape, content and. To achieve the set objectives, the study adopted a mixed methods approach: the descriptive. Ambiguity is a phenomenon which is interesting to learn and to analyze. It can happen in any situation whether in daily conversation or in written sources.

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