This study is aimed to analyze the linguistic features of Philippine English headlines which are published online by three of the country?s national newspapers -INQUIRER.net, philstar.com and mb.com. Using the framework by Mardh (1980) and Mouillaud and T?tu (1989) on the typical features of news headlines in French and English, a sample of 82 headlines were gathered and analyzed from the said online newspapers. The findings revealed that the typical linguistic features of English headlines in the country include the use of present tense for the past tense, the use of to+ infinitive for future tense, the use of main verb + infinitive, extensive use of abbreviations, omission of words, the use of colon to introduce direct speech, the use of comma to replace the conjunction ?and?, and the use of loaded words enclosed in scare quotes.

English Language

online newspaper

headlines