Verbal and Lexical Content of the Headlines in the Reputable Spanish Online Newspapers in the Context of the Socio-Political Reality

Section: Media Language

The interconnection between the crisis and the Spanish digital mass media language is expressed in the active usage of the euphemisms, neologisms and figurative collocations; the quantitative predominance of the formal predicates; the clear stylistic distinction in the titles-forming between the news and the publicistic style; the prevalence of the Historical Present; some deviations from the traditional grammatical and lexical norms — such as invective language and time discordance.