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AnalysisonthelanguagefeaturesinNewsEnglish三稿
江西科技师范大学理工学院
毕业设计(论文)
题目(中文):
浅谈英文网站上新闻的语言使用特色
(外文):
DiscussionontheLanguageFunctionsandFeaturesofEnglishNewsWebsites
学科部:
外语
专业:
英语
学生姓名:
黄裕芳
学号:
20108474
指导教师:
邬海明
2014年5月20日
content
1.Introduction3
2.thelexicalfeaturesinEnglishnews3
2.1Usingvividandgraphicoralwords3
2.2UsingmidgetWords4
2.3Usingabbreviatedwords5
2.4Usingborrowedandloanwords5
2.5Usinguephemism7
2.6Creatingwords……………………………………………..7
3.Thesyntaxfeatures9
3.1passivevoices9
3.2Tenselimitationsandinconsistencies10
3.3WidespreaduseofDirectandIndirectSpeech10
3.4Usingpresenttense11
3.5Loosesentence11
4.RhetoricalfeaturesinEnglishnews11
4.1Theuseofmetaphor11
4.2Theuseofmetonymy12
4.3Theuseofanalogies12
Conclusion14
Reference16
DiscussionontheLanguageFunctionsandFeaturesofEnglishNewsWebsites
Abstract:
Nowadays,manystudiesarefocusedonEnglishnews.AndIwanttoknowhowtobetteranalysisthelanguagefeature,duetoeffectivelyacquiringknowledgefromthosewebsites.ThisessaymainlystudiesthelinguisticfeaturesofEnglishNewsonstylistics.ThestudyisconsistofmainlythreeaspectsofNewsEnglish.Theyarelexicalfeatures,sentencefeaturesandgrammarfeaturesofNewsEnglish.Accordingtothestudy,peoplecanfindthatNewsEnglish,asadistinctiveandnewlanguage,hasitsownlinguisticfeaturesinwords,sentencesandgrammar.Forexample:
Englishnewsoftenusemetaphor,metonymyandanalogies,whichcanmakeEnglishnewsappearsconciseandfulloflargeinformation.
Keywords:
EnglishnewsfeatureslexicalfeaturessyntacticfeaturesrhetoricalfeaturesofEnglishnews
1.Introduction
Withthefastdevelopmentofglobalization,Englishhasbecomethelanguagewhichisusedworld-widely,andEnglishnewshascertainlybecomeanessentialpartoflife.ThusthestudyofNewsEnglishhasbecomeveryimportant.ItisnotonlyessentialforlinguistsbutalsohelpfulforEnglishlearners.
NewsEnglish,asanewlyformedlanguage,hasitsownfeaturesonstylistics.InordertohelppeoplebetterunderstandNewsEnglish,thisessaywillshowmainlyonstylisticfeaturesofNewsEnglishinitswords,sentencesandgrammar.Suchasinthepartofwords,theEnglishnewsoftenusesmidgetwords,abbreviatedwordsandloanwords.Whileinthepartofsentencefeatures,theyoftenusepassivevoices,presenttenseandloosesentence.
2.ThelexicalfeaturesinEnglishnews
ThewordsinNewsEnglishareveryplentiful.Therearevividandgraphicoralwords,midgetwords,abbreviatedwords,borrowedwords,loanwords,euphemismsandmanyothernewwords.HerearethemainfeaturesofthewordsinNewsEnglish.
2.1Usingvividandgraphicoralwords
MostofthereadersofNewsEnglisharecommonpeople.TheyarebusywiththeirworksandalwayshaveveryshorttimetoreadtheNews.SoNewsEnglishshouldbeeasytounderstandandclosetocommonpeople.
Bruisetoldthatthereisasoftwarecompany,andtheywanttodesignsomemobilephones,noneofthemcancaughtfire.(Bruise,1990)
“Catchfire”originallymeans“beonfire”,whichcanmakeusthinkaboutthefiresspreadingtoalldirections.Hereitreferstosomethingthatdevelopsquickly.Inthissentence“caughtfire”meansthethreeWindowscreatedbyMicrosoftdon’tbecomepopularandhavelittleimportance.Thiskindofusemakesthesentencemoregraphic.
ThepeopleinEnglish-speakingcountriesknowtheoralwordsverywell,sotheycanunderstandthereporteasily,andtheyalllikethisvividandlivelylanguagestyleverymuch.Thiskindofreportcanattracttheirattentionandmakethemfeelinterested.
2.2Usingmidgetwords
Becauseofthelimitedtimeandlength,theauthorsoftheNewsEnglishalwayswanttomaketheirreportshortandbrief.Theytrytheirbesttousetheleastwordstoexpressthedeepestmeanings.Thesewordsareshortandsmall,buttheycanexpress
manymeaningsclearly.Manypeoplearefamiliarwiththesewords.Usingmidgetwordscannotonlymakeanewsreportshortandeffective,butalsoattractpeople’sattentions.HerearemidgetwordswhichoftenfoundinNewsEnglish:
cut—reduce,decrease(削减);issue—problem,question(问题);oust—expel,remove(驱逐);pay
—wage,salary(工资).(thecharacterisusedtoexplainthemeaningoftheword)
Sometimesthesemidgetwordsareusedbychangingtheirpartofspeech.Forexample:
“DwightStewart,chairmanofClarendonCountyCouncil,whoalongwithSummertonMayorBethHinsonPhilips,isoneofthefewwhitestoopenlybackElliott’scampaign”.“back”hereisusedasaverbwhichequalsto“support”.It
isshorterandmoreacceptablethan“support”.(Roger.1991:
173)Itgivesthereadersafreshandnewfeeling.
Midgetwordsareoftenusedintheheadlin