文体分析新闻的文体特征

1、Stylistic Analysis of News Reports,Conclusion,Graphological Features 语相特征,Lexical Features 词汇特征,Syntactic/Grammatical Features,Semantic Features 语义特征,Stylistic features of English news reports include:,句法和语法特征,Analyzing Passage one:A Linguistic Descriptive Approach,（P161）,Please pay attention to the

2、 characteristics of sentences in this news report.,Points:,Please mark all the punctuations in this news report.,Please observe the structure features.,Eye-catching headlines,To produce prominent eye-catching effects, “Baghdad Market Is Hit by 3 Bombs” is printed in bold type, and in large fonts tha

3、t forms a sharp contrast with the news lead in smaller fonts.,Short paragraphs,The use of short paragraphs is easy and convenient for the potential readers to follow. As we can see, passage one is split into 12 smaller paragraphs containing 19 sentences. Therefore, we can easy to know the background

4、 of the terrorist attack-the time, the maker and the injured people.,At the lexical level,The use of Arabic numerals,Journalists have a preference for Arabic numerals: Arabic numerals can make things more reasonable; Arabic numerals can be understood universally; Arabic numerals take less time and s

5、pace to be printed than English equivalents.,It uses a lot of Arabica figures to illustrate the number of injured or dead people, the related dates, and the distance of some locations.,The use of abbreviations,To save time and space, abbreviations are used in the news report.,The use of short power

6、words,Short powerful words are very simple and easy-to-understand and space-saving. These words also sound vivid and exciting, especially in the headline.,The use of names of places and people,To make the news appear precise and concrete, lots of names of places and people are given prominence.,The

7、use of clichs and set expressions,This news report was posted on the same day that the car bombing happened. Under great time pressure, the editor has to rely on those handy and labor-saving clichs and set expression to post the news onto the webpages as soon as possible.,At the syntactical/ grammat

8、ical level,Sentence types and complexity,In this news report, these are altogether 19 sentences, all of which 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 th

9、e reading easier and give variety to the rhythm of the article and to break the boredom of reading.,Frequent use of quotations,Most of the sentences follow the usual “subject-predicate” order, since most of the sentences in news reporting are declarative sentences. But when it comes to verbs indicat

10、ing the idea of say, the normal “subject-predicate” order may become “predicate-subject” order.,Tenses in headlines and body,The headline is written in the simple present tense to convey a sense of freshness, while the simple past tense is used in the sub-headline to highlight a past fact. The simpl

11、e past tense is used in the body text, since most news reports convey information of the events that just happened.,At the semantic level,Analysis of the features of journalistic English at this level mainly focus on the realization and interpretation of the meaning of the sample news report.,The he

12、adline,In the straight headline “Baghdad Market Is Hit By 3 Bombs” seven simple powerful words are used to convey the “where, what, why” information to the massive audience of the word. Furthermore, the sub-headline-“At Least 51Dead In Coordinated Attack on Shiites” is used to explain the situation

13、of the news in detail.,The lead,The opening paragraph of the news report is the lead-the gist of the whole message, which is an important character of news reporting.,What: triple car bombing struck Where: a busy shopping district When : Saturday How: killing at least 51people and wounding more than

14、 90 in an attack timed to inflict as many casualties as possible.,The use of vague terms,Although news reporting is often considered to have the features of accuracy of its contents, brevity of its language and clarity of its construction, vague terms and expressions still exist to a considerably la

15、rge extent. The reason for the use of vague terms may be diplomatic considerations, contextual appropriateness, and for being informative and relevant.,Text presentation,The events of the news report are arranged according to the relative importance of the details of the events. This is advantageous to both the r