英语专业毕业论文-On Stylistic Features of Economy News in English Newspaper and Its C-E Translation.pdf

毕业论文 设计 1 on stylistic features of economy news in english newspaper and its c e translation 1 introduction 2 2 stylistic features of english economy news 3 2 1 discourse features 4 2 1 1 title 4 2 1 1 1 diction features 4 2 1 1 2grammatical features 5 2 1 2 lead 6 2 1 3 body structure 6 us giant ebay loses ground to taobao 7 2 2 syntactic features 8 2 2 1 use of expanded simple sentence 8 2 2 2 frequent use of active voice 9 2 2 3 quotations 10 2 3 lexical features 10 2 3 1 new words and expressions 11 2 3 2 jargons 11 2 3 3abbreviations 12 2 3 4 midgets 13 2 3 5 flexible explanation of economy data 13 2 3 6 rhetorical devices 14 2 3 6 1 metaphor 14 2 3 6 2 personification 15 2 3 6 3allusion 15 3 c e translation in economy news 16 3 1 theory applied in economy news translation 17 3 2 translation methods 18 3 2 1communicative translation method 18 3 2 1 1applied in elegant words translation 18 3 2 1 2applied in high sounding words translation 19 3 2 1 3applied in cultural loan words translation 20 3 2 1 4applied in rhetorical devices translation 21 3 2 1 5 drawback of communicative translation 22 3 2 2 other translation methods 24 4 conclusion 26 references 27 毕业论文 设计 2 1 introduction with the trend of economy globalization the relationship between countries is becoming closer and closer people consider it important to know other countries culture and make money by making use of the information they can acquire english being an international language functions as the most popular and effective way for the people all over the world to communicate with each other and acquire information thus it is widely applied by lots of media in transferring news in the world among various media newspaper one of the oldest but easily accessible media stands out from other informative media and becomes the important choice for people to know what happened around or even somewhere far away from them english economy news een as a sub variety of english news which is closely related to people s life and even affects their decision in daily life has gained much attention from readers than other types of news this function endowed it with specific linguistic features that distinct it from other news even though western media are quite professionalized in english economy reports its news is still not objective enough to convey foreign readers about real china for different political background 许明武 2003 so it is necessary for the chinese to transfer chinese news into english version and show international readers what real china is therefore c e economy news translation work is essential for proper and objective transition of chinese impression to the world however the huge difference between two languages with different cultures blocks a smooth transition of 毕业论文 设计 3 information consequently there has been value in study of the stylistic features of english economy news and some methods applicable in the rendering process this paper is mainly composed of four parts including the introduction the stylistic features of english economy news c e translation methods applied and the conclusion the first part is the introduction in which the effect of the journalistic english to people s life and work is presented the second part takes a closed analysis on the stylistic features of english economy news the third part introduces the theory of translation that applied in c e economy news translation and the applicable translation methods the fourth part is the conclusion 2 stylistic features of english economy news stylistic study concerns the situational features that influence variations in language use the criterion for the classification of language variety and description of linguistic features and function of the main varieties of a language 丁往道 2002 in the book 英语文体学论 wang zuoling and ding wangdao point out that the main duty of stylistic analysis should find out the phonetic syntactic lexical and textual characteristics of a style their ideas about stylistic features of english news reporting are based on the analysis of some news samples they point out that english news reporting prefers to employ long and complex sentences in syntax compound words appear frequently in the text and most lexical words are 毕业论文 设计 4 semantically objective 丁往道 2002 18 judging from the definition there are three aspects to research the stylistic features of economy news including discourse syntax and lexeme 2 1 discourse features from the perspective of discourse analysis economy news adheres to the following pattern of structure or discourse title lead body end and background information in the text afurther analysis about them will be presented in the following passages 2 1 1 title as an essential part of a piece of news title is usually printed in large black letters above the text which makes it more eye catching than the rest as a matter of fact a title can be regarded as a piece of brief news which can offer readers a general idea of the news and help them to make a decision whether this news is meaningful for them because of the limited space of newspaper and the significance of title the diction and grammar of title in economy news bear the following characteristics 2 1 1 1 diction features firstly the most widely used words in title writing are midget but dynamic words and abbreviation which can save the space of economy news writing and are easy for readers to understand for example 毕业论文 设计 5 areva bids for turbine maker secondly nouns are also widely applied in economy news titles as they not only can serve as various parts of speech but also express the concept and meaning of a complete sentence in brief form sometimes noun functions as verb in which make the tittles seem more eye catching for instance recruiter eyes mainland 2 1 1 2grammatical features present tense almost replaces other tenses in economy news title because the readers expect what have been written in the news are real in their life so readers will believe that the news reported is true and fresh with title by using present tense the following title will help to present the point auto giants call for gov t help on fuels in addition non finite verbs are extensively applied in the titles of een infinitive is often substituted for the future tense present participle for the progressive tense participle securing top staff a major challenge infinitive yahoo revenue growth to slow syntactically ellipsis is the most outstanding characteristics of economy news tittles the form of the title should be originally a complete sentence however personal pronouns conjunctions and functional words as well as possessives are usually omitted to shorten the length and highlight the most important contents so as 毕业论文 设计 6 to be more concise and comprehensive accordingly a title is generally composed of nouns and verbs through the wide use of ellipsis to highlight the most important content and make more distinct for example hk jobless rate is at six year low 2 1 2 lead the lead is the key to any successful economy news and is to guide readers in news reading and gives them a sense of the news they are going to read the lead usually contains the following elements specific information about what happened when the event occurred the location of the event and the source of the information to simplify in one sentence 5 ws and 1 h who where when why what and how are the major elements of lead for example anglo australian mining giant bhp billition ltd who on wednesday when said in melbourne where its annual net profit surged 63 percent what setting a new australian corporate earnings record how thanks to soaring metal prices and insatiable demand from china why 2 1 3 body structure except for title and lead body is the biggest part of the economy news and is the going on of the lead however it presents more detail of economy events reported the structure of an economy news body is inverted pyramid style 王蕾 2003 70 in this structure information is arranged in the descending order of importance and 毕业论文 设计 7 news values so the information on the above sector of news is much more important than that of the end one therefore the most important material is placed at the beginning of economy news and less important follows the following example may helps to have a better understanding of the structure of economy news us giant ebay loses ground to taobao the chinese market share of us e commerce giant ebay plunged to a record low last year as local rival t gained further ground according to an industry report china intelliconsulting corp founded by internet industry analyst lu bowang said yesterday that ebay the chinese consumer to consumer e commerce market in 2006 was 15 4 percent local rival taobao a subsidiary of chinese e commerce firm alibaba partly owned by yahoo rose from 67 3 percent to 82 percent in the period up to 26 percent of sellers said they would close their shops on ebay china s website compared to 7 percent on taobao and 12 percent on paipai in this piece of this news readers can get the most important information from the report by reading the lead who us e commerce giant ebay 毕业论文 设计 8 what plunged to a record low as local rival t gained further ground when last year where china the rest are the further narrations of the event the lost proportion of ebay in china the condition of its rivals and people s idea about this change in this way people save their time in reading as well as obtaining enough information 2 2 syntactic features economy news drafters prefer to employ simple sentence structures like subject verb subject verb predicative and subject verb object for simple structures can be easily understood and give readers a clear idea of a news however a piece of professional een can not just make up of a bound of simple sentences so journalists develop a systematic syntax for een drafting 2 2 1 use of expanded simple sentence expanded simple sentence is widely applied in een writing because it not only help to save the space of the newspaper and time in drafting news but also makes readers understand news more clearly and easily simple sentence can be expanded by inserting attributes adverbial modifiers or appositives compound sentences etc participial phrases and prepositional phrases are usually used as attributes and adverbial modifiers while noun phrases are applied as appositives and infinitives 毕业论文 设计 9 phrases are adopted to indicate purpose intention or result for example according to the initial plan agreed by both sides russian electricity monopoly unified energy system will work with its chinese counterpart to build a string of power stations in the far east region bordering china and export the electricity back to china the underlined in the above sentence are both adverbial modifiers as the simple sentence russian electricity monopoly unified energy system will work with its chinese counterpart are the main part of the whole sentence 2 2 2 frequent use of active voice active voice is much more widely used than passive voice in een in this way news will be direct straightforward clarified and truly here is an example toyota s british factory has made enough profit in the past three years to offset more than a decade of steady losses posting the first net positive return from its 17 year investment in burnaston if the active voice in the above sentence is shifted into passive voice it would be inconvenient for the readers to read and understand the news because passive voice will make the subject stuff too much of information which is seemingly conflicted with the reading habit in english and it will force the reader to rely heavily on the prior context to interpret the sentence 毕业论文 设计 10 2 2 3 quotations quotation adopted in een is classified into two types namely direct speech and indirect speech in english economy news report more than 80 percent of the economy news involves in objective economy events report that is called feature news whereas less than 20 percent of economy news is about professional comment on some economy phenomena 张全义 2003 the application of quotation in een can make the article more convincing and more objective so that reader can be sure that the journalist hasn t put his subjective comments or views in the news which may distort the real economy events here are two examples direct speech we are providing all details regarding to the sec and not commenting beyond that steve dowling an apple spokesman said by telephone indirect speech speaking in texas mr fisher said that while there was stronger evidence that the economy was slowing the problem was that the inflation pressure gauge needle was moving in the opposite direction the underlined words in the above examples are those that applied in the een drafting frequently for the purpose of making the report more objective and authoritative 2 3 lexical features even though een has the common lexical features of general english news it bears its own features too 毕业论文 设计 11 2 3 1 new words and expressions economy news reports some economy events that happened recently which requires journalists to employ new words and expressions to catch readers attention coinage is an effective way of creating novelty words that are widely applied in een for example reganomics regan economies里根经济 taikonaunt chinese astronaut中国太空人 reganomics refers to the economy in the age of regan while taikonaunt is compounded with a chinese word taikon which means universe and the english suffix aunt 2 3 2 jargons jargon refers to those words that are used in various special fields therefore jargons are usually thought as a major hindrance for readers to comprehend een nevertheless jargons can serve the purpose of simplifying economy news drafting as most of the jargons are brief and precise here are some frequently used jargons in english economy news bear raid空头猛跌 bid ask spread买卖差价 index option指数期权 cherry picking选出最有利的 segregated fund独立基金 毕业论文 设计 12 s p standard and poor s 标准普尔 yield to call买回收益率 revolving fund周转性资金 the s p500 ended virtually flat at 1 279 36 after an early 1 percent rally while yields on benchmark 10 year treasuries dropped 6 basis points to 4 9 percent a four month low 2 3 3 abbreviations due to the short form abbreviations can save both the space of newspaper and readers time it is frequently applied in the een here are some abbreviations frequently used in economy news imf international monetary fund atoi after tax operating income cpa certified public accountants cpi consumer price index fdi foreign direct investment frb federal reserve bank gdp gross domestic product ipo initial public offering libor london interbank offered rate mbo management buyout nyse new york stock exchange accordingly the quality of abbreviations should be confined in a certain extension and sometimes it is essential for journalists to make an explanation of it in brackets or with a dash for example morgan stanley ceo mack appeared are the sec securities and exchange commission to testify in the agency s insider trading investigation of hedge fund 毕业论文 设计 13 pequot capital management 2 3 4 midgets midgets are short words and they are widely exerted in english economy news writing on the basis that they can save the space of the paper and reader s time as midgets are frequently used in readers daily life readers can understand them easily as a rule elegant words and long words should be avoided in een writing because they will burden readers comprehension and reading speed 许明武 2003 22 some of the frequently used midgets instead of longer ones found in economy newspaper are presented as follows accord agree reconcile ask inquire ban prohibit restrain due schedule nod approval probe investigate soar skyrocket top exceed aid assistance arms weapons 2 3 5 flexible explanation of economy data while reading economy news it is quite common for readers to come across economy data which is adopted by journalists to clarify some economy phenomena or events as a matter of fact the employment of data in economy news can make the reporting more objective convincing and precise figures for the arabic numerals adopted in economy news can make the text concise and explicit for instance share of google fell us 2 35 to us 426 65 yesterday in nasdaq stock market 毕业论文 设计 14 composite trading and have risen 2 8 percent this year yahoo fell 56 cents to us 24 47 its lowest closing price since april 7 2004 2 3 6 rhetorical devices even though journalists are required to report economy news objectively it would be quite tedious for readers to read a piece of news abounding with a great amount of economy data and lengthy description of some economy events so it is neceassary to use some rhetorical devices properly to vivid economy reporting metaphor personification and allusion are the three frequently used rhetorical devices applied in een here are the analyses 2 3 6 1 metaphor made up of half a dozen separate businesses the boston based behemoth manages 1 500bn in assets worldwide making it larger than the entire global hedge fund industry the metaphoric expression behemoth which first appeared in old testament about a huge animal give a vivid image to readers the great power of a large company therefore metaphoric expressions can draw readers attention and assist thoughts by arousing a visual image in readers mind making information more interesting and vivid 毕业论文 设计 15 2 3 6 2 personification friday s us rally lifted european government bonds which had suffered a sharp sell off in thursday after both the bank of england and the european central bank raised their interest rates by 25bp each to 4 75 percent and 3 percent respectively lift and suffer are applied properly and vividly to indicate the economy situation and make it easier to understand undoubtedly personification can touch the heart of readers 2 3 6 3 allusion nevertheless a question mark remains over the outlook 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