Linguistic Features of the Headlines of the News Report in China Daily and Washington Post25Word格式文档下载.docx
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Second,thelengthofnewsheadlinesofChinaDailyandWashingtonPostarebothshort.Onaverage,thenewsheadlinesinChinaDailyhaveanaverageof6.4wordswhereastheheadlinesinWashingtonPosthaveanaverageof6.8words.BothChinaDailyandWashingtonPostemployalmostthesameamountofellipticalsentencesandcompletesentences.
Finally,bothChinaDailyandWashingtonPostfavormanypopularrhetoricaldevicesintheirnewsreportheadlines.WashingtonPostusesmorealliterationinheadlines.ChinaDailyadoptsmoremetaphors.ChinaDailyandWashingtonPostbothuserhymeandmetonymyintheheadlinestoimpressonthereaders.
ItishopedthatthestudycanshedlightonthelinguisticfeaturesofthenewsreportheadlinesofChinaDailyandWashingtonPostandalsoprovidehelptolearnerwritersinnewsEnglish.
Keywords:
newsreportheadlinesChinaDailyWashingtonPost
《中国日报》和《华盛顿邮报》新闻句型对比研究
摘要:
本文着重从词汇、句法以及修辞方面分析和比较《中国日报》和《华盛顿邮报》新闻标题的语言特点。
本文作者从《中国日报》和《华盛顿邮报》收集了100条各类新闻标题。
数据分析的结果如下:
首先,《中国日报》和《华盛顿邮报》的新闻标题在动词,名词以及形容词的使用上没有明显的区别。
《中国日报》的新闻标题使用的简单动词,专有名词,缩略词以及首字母缩略词多于《华盛顿邮报》,而《华盛顿邮报》的新闻标题使用的动词词组多于《中国日报》。
两者的标题内都很少用形容词。
但是《中国日报》使用像US和UN等一些首字母缩略词,《华盛顿邮报》却用:
U.S.和U.N.。
此外,《华盛顿邮报》标题内每个实词的首字母都大写,而《中国日报》没有。
其次,《中国日报》和《华盛顿邮报》新闻标题的长度都很短。
《中国日报》新闻标题的平均长度只有6.4个单词,而《华盛顿邮报》只有6.8个单词。
《中国日报》和《华盛顿邮报》的新闻标题在省略句和完整句使用数量上几乎相等。
最后,《中国日报》和《华盛顿邮报》都在新闻标题内使用修辞手法。
《华盛顿邮报》的新闻标题使用的头韵手法比《中国日报》的新闻标题多。
而《中国日报》的新闻标题使用的暗喻手法比《华盛顿邮报》的新闻标题多。
此外,两者的新闻标题都采用尾韵和借代的手法以加深读者对新闻标题的印象。
本文作者衷心希望此论文的分析结果能便于了解《中国日报》和《华盛顿邮报》新闻标题特点以及给新闻英语的学习者提供帮助。
关键词:
英语新闻标题《中国日报》《华盛顿邮报》
1.Introduction
1.1IntroductiontoChinaDailyandWashingtonPost
ChinaDaily,establishedin1981,istheonlynationalEnglish-languagenewspaperinChina.Theaveragedailycirculationismorethan200,000,one-thirdofwhichisabroadinmorethan150countriesandregions.Itswebsitereceives6millionpageviewsaday,two-thirdsfromoverseas.ChinaDailyisregardedasoneofthecountry'
smostauthoritativeEnglishmediaoutletsandanimportantsourceofinformationonChinesepolitics,economy,societyandculture.Itisoftencalledthe"
VoiceofChina"
or"
WindowtoChina"
.ChinaDailyalsoservesasanimportantsourceforhigh-endChinesereaderswhowanttoknowmoreabouttheworld.WashingtonPost,establishedin1877,isthemostinfluentialandoldestnewspaperinWashingtonD.C,eventhroughouttheworld.Theaveragedailycirculationismorethan500,000,makingitthefifthbiggestnewspaperintheworld.WashingtonPostprovidesusinformationonpolitics,economy,societyandcultureofAmericanandtheothercountries.
1.2Functionofnewsreportheadlines
Thetermheadlinereferstothesentence(s)intheleadingpositionofthenewsreport—thewordsthatwillbereadfirstorthatarepositionedtodrawthemostattention.Research(Bovee&
Arens,1992,p.294)hasshownthat,onaverage,therearethreetofivetimesasmanypeoplereadingtheheadlineasthosereadingthebodycopy.
Aheadlinehasnumerousfunctions.Firstofall,theheadlinemustattractattentiontothereportquickly.Itshouldtakeonlyafewsecondstocapturethereader’sattention.Otherwise,theentiremessagemaybelost.Aheadlinealsoselectsthereader,thatis,ittellswhetherwhatthenewswantstoconveyintereststhereader.Theideaistoengageandinvolvethereader,suggestingareasontoreadtherestofthereport.Therefore,theheadlineisthemostimportantinanewsreport.
1.3Rationaleofthestudy
Weliveinaworldofnews.ThetidesofEnglishnewsreportshavetheirownlinguisticfeatures.Aheadlineisthebriefsummaryofthemainideaofanewsreport.Inordertoattractreaders’attention,aheadlineshouldbevivid,novelandinteresting,andtheusageoflexical,sententialandrhetoricaldevicescanmakeitmoreeye-catching.
Surprisingly,however,althoughtherehasbeenvoluminousresearchdoneonthefeaturesofnewsreporttitles,thepresentwriterhasfoundfewreportedstudiesonthecomparisonofthelanguagefeaturesoftheheadlinesofthenewsreportsinChinaDailyandWashingtonPost.
Thepresentstudywasdesignedtofillthisgapinresearch.ItwillanalyzeandcomparethelinguisticfeaturesoftheheadlinesofthenewsreportsinChinaDailyandWashingtonPostfromthelexical,sententialandrhetoricaspects.Hopefully,throughmyanalysisandresearchonthelinguisticfeaturesofnewsreportheadlinesofthetwofamousnewspapers,wecangainabetterunderstandingofthefeaturesofthenewsreportheadlines.
2.Literaturereview
TherearenumerousstudiesontheEnglishnewspaperheadlines.Somescholarsareinclinedtostudythelexicalcharacteristicsofthenewsreportheadlines,whileothersprefertoanalyzetheirgrammaticalfeatures.Stillsomewouldliketostudytherhetoricaspect.Manyofthemcombinethefeaturesoftheheadlineswithtranslation.
Han(2006)makesaresearchonthestylisticfeaturesofEnglishpoliticalnewsheadlines.Asakindofseriousnewsstyle,politicalnewstypicallyreportsimportantnationalorglobalevents.SheconcludesthatEnglishpoliticalnewsheadlinesnormallyembodyvariousstylisticfeaturesintermsoflexes,structuresandrhetoric,forinstance,theuseofsmallwords,ellipsis,figuresofspeechandpunetc.AndsheanalyzesthestylisticfeaturesofEnglishpoliticalnewsheadlineswithexamplesindetail.
Duanmu(2001)studiesthefunctionandthelanguagefeaturesoftheEnglishnewspaperheadlines.HeanalyzesthefeaturesoftheEnglishnewspaperheadlinesintermsofpunctuation,syntax,theuseofwordsandrhetoricdevices.AccordingtoDuanmu,Englishnewspaperheadlinesprefercomma,colon,semicolon,questionmark,quotationmarksandexclamationmarkwhenusingpunctuation.Besides,Englishnewspaperheadlinesoftenuseshortwords,shortenings(acronymsandclippings)andidioms.Furthermore,rhetoricdevicessuchasfigureofspeech,allusion,andantithesisarefrequentlyusedinEnglishnewspaperheadlines.
Theheadlineisanimportantcomponentofnewswithpeculiarlanguagefeatures.Feng(1999)makesapreliminarysurveyonthepeculiaritiesofthevocabularyandgrammaroftheEnglishnewspaperheadlines,focusingmainlyonthelexicalandgrammaticalaspects.HecomestotheconclusionthattheEnglishnewspaperheadlinesprefershortwords,omissionofsomewordsandwideuseofabbreviationsandacronyms.Inaddition,heanalyzesthetenseofEnglishnewspaperheadlinesintermsoffouraspects,namely,simplepresenttense,presentprogressivetense,simplefuturetense,andthepassivevoice.
DuanandandLi(2002)focusonthestylisticcharacteristicsoftheheadlinesofEnglishnewspaper.Theyanalyzetheusesofvocabulary,syntaxandrhetoriccharacteristicsofEnglishnewsheadlinessoastoprovideabetterunderstandingofthecontentsofheadlinesandwesternculture.
Li(2000)
investigatesthegrammaticalandrhetoriccharacteristicsoftheheadlinesoftheEnglishlanguagepress.Inhispaper,theusesofvocabularyandtenses,theomissionofwords,typesandrhetoriccharacteristicsoftheheadlinesintheEnglishlanguagepressareapproachedforthepurposeofhavingabetterunderstandingofthecontentsofheadlinesandimprovingofpressreadability.
Chen(2006)providesanin-depthanalysisofthefeaturesofheadlinesofjournalisticEnglish.SheidentifiessixcharacteristicsoftheheadlinesofjournalisticEnglish:
omission,acronymandclipping,theusageoftenses,rhetoricandpunctuation.
Zhen(2005)attemptstostudythelinguisticandrhetoricpeculiaritiesofEnglishnewspaperheadlines.HedrawsourattentiontothefeaturesoftheEnglishnewspaperheadlinessuchasomission;
acronymandclipping,simplificationoftense,useofpunctuationsandidioms.
Huang(1994)focusesherresearchontheuseofrhetoricinthenewspapertitlesandemphasizesonthefunctionoftherhetoricdevices.Shecomestotheconclusionthattheusageoftherhetoricdevicesaddsvividnessandreadabilitytothereport.
Inaddition,somescholarshavestudiedtheheadlinefeaturesofChinaDailyandWashingtonPostrespectively.HuandLiu(2006)haveinvestigatedtherhetoriccharacteristicsofWashingtonPostinordertogetanoverallideaoftherhetoricfeaturesoftheEnglishnewsreportheadlines.WashingtonPostembodiestherhetorictraitsofthenewsreportheadlinesintermsofalliteration,assonanceandalternaterhyme,oxymoron,metonymy,climax,satirize,parody,figuresofspeech,personification,andellipse.YangandNan(1994)concentrateonthestylisticfeaturesoftheheadlinesofChinaDailyintermsofshortwords,abbreviationsandacronymsandtenses.
GuanandWei(2005)makeadeepstudyonthefunctionaltextualanalysi
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