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1、The English of News Reporting,Main contents,The English of News Reporting as a Variety General Features of Newspaper ReportingStylistic Features of Newspaper ReportingStylistic Features of Radio and Television News,The English of News Reporting as a Variety,News reporting news by newspaper news by r
2、adio and television,The English of News Reporting as a Variety,NewspaperFunction 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 by Rad
3、io and TelevisionThey 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 Reporting,I
4、t is appropriate for a mass audience of different educational levels to readIt is written in simple,easy-to-understand languageThe headline often demands graphological design and the use of clear,direct,and vivid language.,Stylistic Features of Newspaper Reporting,Graphological Features Grammtical F
5、eaturesLexical FeaturesSemantic Features,Graphological Features(1)Masthead-Box-White Space(2)Contrast in headlines:Flush left Drop form Inverted pyramid form Centered formOverline/kickerSubheadJump head(3)The use of punctuation,Grammtical Features(1)Alternating use of long and short statement-type s
6、entencesAnd 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 was work,make the paymen
7、ts 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 sentencesThe suspect was arrested on the scene,police said.The suspect was arrested on the scene,said the police.explained the teacher,la
8、ughted 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 expressionsaim(purpose design object intention)bid(appeal offer endeavour attempt)deal(negotiation bargain tran
9、saction)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 ornamentsthe most beautiful woman a beautiful woman;the most exciting game an exciting game never seldom,
10、frequently always,probaly true absolutely.(5)Avoidance of unobjective wordingI me my us ourThe speaker said our city was a nice little town.The speaker said Zibo was a nice little town.,Semantic features(1)Distinctive discourse patternheadline,the lead,the body,the background,the endingwho what when
11、 where why and for a good measure,how(2)Simple way of transitionthe 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 headliningways of making sillful headlininggraphologi
12、cal prominencepreference for midgetwordswide 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 are preferred.(5)adiectives are not many.Floridian weather descended upon the city todayFlorida(6)in newscast,some combinations like alliteration in the sequence of words are avoided.,THANK YOU,
