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A study on the repetition of headings in editorial articles:The effectiveness of the heading repetition for determining the text type

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2014, (42), pp.129-144
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature

Yuka Aizawa 1

1성결대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study is to analyze the influence of the iteration of headings in editorial articles in the Japanese language. It was intended to verify the effectiveness of the repetition of headings to determine the type of sentence structure. The study revealed that 'quasi-headline' was used in the main text at the rate of about 77%. This means that 23% of cases did not repeat the heading. As such, it cannot be said that there is always a repetition of the heading in the main text. In the case in which the heading was repeated, it was expressed in one or two sentences. Furthermore, the case in which the heading was used in the exactly same form as its original was very few. Parts of the heading were often omitted or replaced with other phrases, or some vocabularies were added to supplement the content of the heading in most cases. These results suggest that the effectiveness of the heading repetition can only partly be admitted as a means of determining the type of sentence structure given that the heading repetition does not occur in some cases. Following on this study, I will continue investigating the relationship between main texts and the headings, and analyze the function of headings ofeditorial articles for deeper understanding of these issues.

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