Passive forms in newspaper headlines and their rendering into Romanian

Chapter One. Theoretical Preliminaries to English Style……5
1.1  The Notion of Style. …………5
1.2  Functional Styles of the English Language………8
1.3  Newspaper Style………………15
1.3.1. Brief News Item……………16
1.3.2. The Headline………………….21
1.3.3. Advertisements and Announcements…………23
1.4  Newspaper Headlines Grammar……………………….25
1.5 The Use of the Passive Voice…………………………29
1.6  Passives Used in Newspaper Headlines………33
Chapter Two. Passive Forms in Newspaper Headlines and Their Rendering into Romanian………42
2.1 Indefinite or Vague Agents and Self-evident Agents ………45
2.2 Emphasized Agent and Theme Continuity…………………………51
2.3 Heavier Agents and Participial Adjectives Used in Headlines………57
2.4 Get/Have Verbs & Sentences Beginning with P/P. in Headlines……59
2.5 Statistical Data………61
Bibliography………………66
Appendix……………………68