英語文體學(xué)-第十章-News-ReportingPPT演示課件

1、The English of News Reporting,Main contents,The English of News Reporting as a Variety General Features of Newspaper Reporting Stylistic Features of Newspaper Reporting Stylistic Features of Radio and Television News,The English of News Reporting as a Variety,News reporting news by newspaper news by

2、 radio and television,The English of News Reporting as a Variety,Newspaper Function ternor: to tell us news Mode: is written to be read with the eye Personal ternor: its different cateories and different formats present different degrees of formality,The English of News Reporting as a Variety,News b

3、y Radio and Television They are commonly referred to as newscasts which are written to be read aloud over the radio and television. They perform the same function as press news and share many linguistic features with it, though they display some traits of their own,General Features of Newspaper Repo

4、rting,It is appropriate for a mass audience of different educational levels to read It is written in simple,easy-to -understand language The headline often demands graphological design and the use of clear,direct,and vivid language,Stylistic Features of Newspaper Reporting,Graphological Features Gra

5、mmtical Features Lexical Features Semantic Features,Graphological Features (1)Masthead-Box-White Space (2)Contrast in headlines: Flush left Drop form Inverted pyramid form Centered form Overline/kicker Subhead Jump head (3)The use of punctuation,Grammtical Features (1) Alternating use of long and sh

6、ort statement-type sentences And the cost of removing last winters mountainous snows has strained the budgets of some localities in the Northeast and Midwest.Not so,however,in the Sunbelt. His parents were great people,of course,but their way of living was too materialistic.All they thought about wa

7、s work,make the payments on a house,and gripe about inflation. Not for him. He had discovered a new freedom of thought,2)Frequent use of inverted sentence structure and expanded simple sentences The suspect was arrested on the scene,police said. The suspect was arrested on the scene,said the police.

8、 explained the teacher, laughted the mayor, shrugged a Defense Department official. (3)Use of heavily modified nominal groups (4)Use of simple verbal groups,lexical features (1)Preference for journalistic words and set expressions aim(purpose design object intention) bid(appeal offer endeavour attem

9、pt) deal(negotiation bargain transaction) according to eyewitness with guarded reserve on the brink of a breakthrough,etc. (2)Wide use of neologisms (3)Extensive use of abbreviations,4)Avoidance of superlatives and tarnished word ornaments the most beautiful woman a beautiful woman ; the most exciti

10、ng game an exciting game never seldom,frequently always,probaly true absolutely. (5)Avoidance of unobjective wording I me my us our The speaker said our city was a nice little town. The speaker said Zibo was a nice little town,Semantic features (1)Distinctive discourse pattern headline, the lead, th

11、e body, the background, the ending who what when where why and for a good measure,how (2)Simple way of transition the obvious relatedness between sentences within a paragraph or between paragraphs within a story with the use of common connectives as also,on the other hand,or meanwhile,3)Skilful head

12、lining ways of making sillful headlining graphological prominence preference for midgetwords wide use of ellipsis with frequent omission of articles,possessives,verb be,even content words.,Stylistic Features of Radio and Television News,1)newscast stories are mostly short (2)newscast news tend to be even simpler comared with newspaper news. (3)contractions,taboo in newspaper stories except in quotations,are acceptable in newscast. (4)familiar words