Chapter 12Stylistics of journalistic English文档格式.docx

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2.DefinitionofjournalismandjournalisticEnglish

3.StylisticanalysisofjournalisticEnglish

3.1Stylisticfeaturesofheadlines

3.2StylisticfeaturesofjournalisticEnglishtexts

3.3Comments

4.Researchprospects

5.Summary

ThischapterismainlyconcernedwiththeanalysisofthestylisticfeaturesofjournalisticEnglishandtheirstylisticeffects.

2.1Definitionofjournalism

Theword“journalism”isderivedfrom“journal”originatingfromtheLatinword“diurnalis”whichmeans“day”.NewWebster’sDictionaryoftheEnglishLanguagedefines“journal”as“anewspaperorotherperiodicalpublisheddaily;

anymagazineorperiodical,esp.,onepublishedforaspecialpurpose”.Tobebrief,journalispublishedregularly（daily,weekly,ormonthly,etc.）,anditprovidessomeup-datedinformationforreaders.

Journalismisdefinedas“thedisciplineofgathering,writingandreportingnews,andbroadlyitincludestheprocessofeditingandpresentingthenewsarticles”（http:

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:

Journalism）oras“theproductionofnewsreportsandeditorialsthroughmediasuchasnewspapers,magazines,radio,televisionandtheInternet”（http:

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism）.

2.2DefinitionofjournalisticEnglish

JournalisticEnglish,inanarrowsense,referstothelanguageofEnglishnewsreporting,whichembodiesthetypicalcharacteristicsofjournalisticEnglish;

inabroadsense,itdealswiththelanguageusedinnewsreporting,newscast,featurearticlesandopinionwriting.

Toputitanotherway,thelanguageofjournalismiswrittentoreadasisprintedinnewspapersandmagazines【这一句去掉】;

ThestyleofjournalisticEnglishvariesfromformaltoinformalalongthecontinuumofformality.Itscoveragerangesfrompolitics,economics,technology,culture,sports,andenvironmenttoentertainment.

Actually,journalisticEnglishhasitsownuniquecharacteristics,whichseeminglydonotconformtocommonEnglishprinciples.WithoutsomecommandofbasicfeaturesinjournalisticEnglish,itisdifficultforreaderstototallygraspthemessagesonEnglishnewspapers.

JournalisticEnglishisofvitalimportancenotonlytojournalistsbutalsotoreaders.EnglishnewspapersareperhapsthebestmaterialforlearningmodernEnglish.

TomakeaconvincingportrayalofthestylisticfeaturesofjournalisticEnglish,wewillselectourexamplesatrandomfromtheworld-renownednewspaperssuchastheTheMirror,TheTimes,TheNewYorkTimes,TheNewYorkPost,TheReuters【其它都是报刊，这个是新闻机构，是否可以并列？

拿不准就删除吧】,andChinaDaily.Becauseofthevitalimportanceofheadlines,thestylisticfeaturesofheadlineswillfirstbediscussedbeforethediscussionofthestylisticfeaturesofjournalisticEnglish.

Anewspaperusuallyhasdozensofpages.Itisunimaginablethatacommonreadershouldreadthenewspaperwordbywordfromtheverybeginningtotheend.Thenewsheadlineistheeyeofnewsandthehighlyartisticcondensation,themostimportantfunctionofwhichistoattractthereaders’attentionaswellastoarousetheircuriositytoreadon.ThelanguageoftheEnglishnewsheadlinesisconcise,readable,aestheticandnovel,whichdiffersalotfromotherstylesofwriting.Moreover,thenewsheadlineisdesignedtofulfillmanyfunctions,amongwhichtheattractivefunctionisthemostimportantone.

3.1.1Graphologicalfeatures

Thetypographicsubstancewhichcarrieslanguageisthevehicleofanotherkindofmeaning,conveyedsimultaneouslybythechoiceofscript,lettersize,spacingandsoon.Thiskindofmeaning,occurringtogetherwithlinguisticmeaning,isparalinguistic.

3.1.1.1Capitalization

Capitalizationusuallymeansthewritingofawordwithitsfirstletterasanuppercaseandtheremaininglettersinlowercase.Differentcapitalizationstylescreatedifferentvisualeffects.Normally,therearethreecommonlyusedcapitalizationdevicesfortheheadlines.

（1）Upper-and-lowercase

Thefirstcapitalizationstyleofheadlinesistheupper-and-lowercase.Generally,thefirstletterofeachwordiscapitalizedwithprepositionsinlowercase.Forexample,

WithBuilderinBankruptcy,BuyersAreLeftOut（formTheNewYorkTimes,Jan.3,2008）

TeenagersintheCitySmokeLess,ReportFinds（fromTheNewYorkTimes,Jan.3,2008）

ItseemsthatTheNewYorkTimesfavorsthiskindofcapitalization.

（2）All-capitalizedheadlines

Theall-capitalizedheadlinereferstotheformthateveryletterintheheadlineiscapitalizedregardlessoftheirwordclasses.Thiskindofheadlineisparticularlyeye-catching.Forexample,

MAKEAGOOD‘LIVING’（fromTheNewYorkPost,J