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应用外语学院2012级1班赵舒畅学号：20201209170023 文体学作业Analyzing a News Report :A linguistic Descriptive Approach(By Zhao Shuchang of Grade 2012)1. At the graphological levelEye-catching headlinesTo produce prominent eye-catching effects, the headline of the chosen new report -“Baghdad Market Is Hit by 3 Bombs” is printed in bold type, and in large fonts that forms a sharp contrast with the news lead in smaller fonts.Short paragraphsShort paragraphs can facilitate reading, so apart from headline ,the most obvious visual feature is the use of short paragraphs that makes it easy convenient for the potential readers to follow. As it can be seen, we can easy to know the background of the terrorist attack-the time ,the maker and the injured people.2.At the lexical level The use of Arabic numeralsJournalists have a preference for Arabic numerals:（1 Arabic numerals can be understood universally;（2 Arabica numerals take less time and space to be printed than English equivalents;（3 Arabica numerals can make things more reasonable.Therefore, this news use a lot of Arabica numerals, for example, 51 people, more than 9o,200people, 22miles, wounding 15 and so on. The use of names of place To make the news appear precise and concrete, lots of names of places are given prominence, for instance:Fadhil, Diyala, Sadr City, Khalis,Iskandariyah,Duluiyah,Anbar and so on.3.At the syntactical levelSentence types and complexity In the sample news report, these news are statements suitable for the dominant function of giving information .Besides ,the journalists usually alternate between the use of long and short, complex and simple sentences to make the reading easier and give variety to the rhythm of the article and to break the boredom of reading. Frequent use of quotations phrases For the same reason as that of the sentence complexity in the news report , quotations phrases are frequently used to make it convinced and save the space. Instance are listed as follows:“The offensive also led to the seizure of several car bombs that were ready to donate as well as weapons and posters that encouraged sectarian violence ,Iraqi army officials said.”“Wounds sustained due to enemy action, the military said Saturday.”4. At the semantic levelAnalysis of the features of journalistic English at this level mainly focuses on the realization and interpretation of the meaning of the sample news report.The headlineHeadlines play a vital role in drawing readers attention to the news story. In the sample news report, the editor designs on headline.In the straight headline“Baghdad Market Is Hit By 3 Bombs, seven simple powerful words are used to convey a “where, what”. Also, the subheading use tell me the” when, what , who “in detail . The leadThe opening paragraph of the news report is the lead-the gist of the whole message, which is an important character of news reporting. In the simple sentence ,we can get answers to the key questions:What: triple car bombing struckWhere: a busy shopping district When : SaturdayHow: killing at least 51people and wounding more than 90 in an attack timed to inflict as many casualties as possible.5. Text presentation The sample report of the news event goes in a logical order: The most important thing comes first, then follow the detailed information in a logical order:(1. summarize the event (2. Describe the event in detail6. SummaryIn this article, I have analyzed this event by dictionary.References新编英语文体学教程董启明编外语教学与研究出版社主要教学参考书Black,Elizabeth.PragmaticStylistics.Edinburgh:EdinburghUniversityPress,2006Bradford,Richard.Stylistics.London&NewYork:Routledge,1997.Cook,Guy.DiscourseandLiterature.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,1994.Culpeper,J.Language&Characterisation:PeopleinPlays&OtherTexts.London:PearsonEducationLtd.,2001.Fabb,Nigel.LanguageandLiteraryStructure:thelinguisticanalysisofforminverseandnarrative.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2002.Gavins,Joanna&Steen,Gerard,eds.CognitivePoeticsinPractice.LondonandNewYork:Routledge,2003.Herman,David(ed).NarrativeTh