This study investigates if headlines in journalism are genre-specific. Taking a starting point in Austin's concept of illocutionary act, Searle's development of the concept, and the adaptation of the concept to texts within rhetorical genre studies (Bazerman, 1994; Miller, 1984) and pragmatic text linguistics (Borchmann, 2005, 2010, 2014), the study assumes that the texts of a specific genre comprise various subordinated illocutionary acts which must contribute to the fulfilment of the typified purpose that the textual macro-act serves. Accordingly, headlines are considered to be subacts, i.e. illocutionary acts whose conditions of satisfaction are determined by the typified purpose of the text they form a part of. This functional account suggests that headlines are genre-specific. The present study tests this hypothesis by means of two analyses: a comparative pragmatic analysis of 300 headlines from three different genres, and a comparative pragmatic analysis of 90 texts from three different genres. The material used in both surveys are texts of the genres news, analysis and column in the Danish omnibus newspaper Politiken.

The result of the comparative analysis of headlines is that it is possible to identify genre-specific pragmatic features of headlines. The results of the comparative analysis of texts are that there are functional relations between pragmatic features of headlines and the accepted purpose of the textual macro-act they form a part of, and that there are genre-specific rhetorical relations between headlines and the body of the texts. On this basis, the distinctive conditions of satisfactions of each of the three illocutionary subacts news headline, headline of analysis and headline of column are stated.

这项研究调查了新闻标题是否具有特定类型。以奥斯汀的言外行为概念为起点，塞尔对该概念的发展，以及该概念在修辞体裁研究（Bazerman，1994；Miller，1984）和语用文本语言学（Borchmann，2005、2010、2014）中对文本的适应），该研究假设特定类型的文本包含各种从属的言外行为，这些行为必须有助于实现文本宏观行为所服务的典型目的。因此，标题被认为是子行为，即言外行为，其满足条件由它们所构成的文本的典型目的决定。这个功能帐户表明标题是特定类型的。本研究通过两种分析来检验这一假设：对三种不同体裁的 300 个标题进行比较语用分析，以及对三种不同体裁的 90 篇文本进行比较语用分析。两项调查使用的材料都是丹麦综合性报纸《政治》的新闻、分析和专栏文本。

标题比较分析的结果是可以识别标题的特定类型的语用特征。文本比较分析的结果是，标题的语用特征与其所构成的文本宏观行为的公认目的之间存在功能关系，并且标题与正文之间存在特定体裁的修辞关系。文本。在此基础上，阐述了新闻标题、分析标题和专栏标题这三个言外行为各自的独特满足条件。