• For example, • Thousands of National Guard troops
and police deployed in riot gear to stop the spread of looting and destruction
• 2.2.4. Use of simple verbal groups
THE ENGLISH OF NEWS REPORTING
1.General features of
Newspaper Reporting
• 1.1.What is the aim of newspaper reporting ?
• Newspaper reporting aims to a mass audience of different educational levels news item in the simple, easy to understand language.
• 2.2.2. Frequent use of inverted sentence structure and expanded simple sentence
• The distinctive of this variety of English is the use of inverted sentence structure.
•
Purchases 150 acres
•
For Springdale plant
• Inverted pyramid form, a head occupying several lines in which the top line is the longest, and the other lines are shortened in proper order, so that it looks similar to an inverted pyramid:
• We can draw two conclusion from the sample in our textbook.
• First, the use of the dominant simple past form and someຫໍສະໝຸດ present tense form.
• Second, a lot more active verbs than passive .
• Agree to drop
• Price of oil
• Drop form-a head occupying several lines with the 2nd and 3rd lines indented, each further inwards from left margin:
• Centennial industries
Monday, it was 1,195). {From New York Times(April 12, 2010)}
• But he cited no incidents beyond the nowfamous campfire conversations that Osama bin Laden held in August 2001 with two Pakistanis who had deep ties to Pakistan’s nuclear weapons
writing, such as aid (for help), back (for support), boost (for increase). The
midget words are most frequently used
in headlines, for example, aim can mean purpose，design, object, intention; deal can mean negotiation, offer, bargain, transaction; and so on.
2.2. Grammatical Features
• 2.2.1. Alternating use of long and short statement –type sentence
• Due to the type of news and the kind of rhythmic effect, the news writer use different kinds of sentences to convey.
said the police.
• 2.2.3. Use of heavily modified nominal groups
• Highly noteworthy is the presence of much complex pre-and postmodification of the nominal group in this variety of English.
• There are also simple and direct set expressions at newspaper-writers’ fingertips, the commonest is the phrase
no common, for example,
• His reticence has become such a punch line that a front page headline in the recent April Fools’ issue of City Hall, a weekly political newspaper, blared: “Cuomo Convenes Conference Call to Say, ‘No
• While some headlines are bold, for example:
• flush left-a head that all flush to the left margin without considering the margin on the right:
• OPEC ministers
• Sisley-struck
• with his
• impressions
• overline/”kicker”, a usually small head above the larger main line:
• why things are
• Oh, don’t be so picky • Subhead, a usually smaller head under the main
• For Reagon Williamsburg was
• a political smash but an
• economic fizzle
• centered form
• a head occupying several lines that are placed in the middle of respective lines:
2.3. Lexical Features
• 2.3.1. Preference for journalistic words and set expressions
• With long time of use, many short common words (midget words) have acquired a special flavor of journalistic
1.2.What is the limitation of News Reporting
• There are two major limitations:
• 1.the limitation of the space
• 2.pressure for time on the part of the reader
2. Stylistic Features of Newspaper Reporting
• 2.1. Graphological Features • Headlines always various in size and shape
of body types, using as well as highlighting and pictures to attract our eyes. White space is also used in different places such as around the masthead, above headlines, between the lines of heads, between paragraphs or the photo and caption, etc. to catch the reader’s eye and rivet his/her attention on what is most important and yet most attractive and easy to read.
laboratories. {From New York Times (April 12,
2010)}
• There are also words from extended meaning,
such as Korean’s Pentagon, Japanese Watergate; some coinages such as Reaganomics (Regan’s economic), moneywise (with regard to
Comment.’ ” {From New York Times(April
12, 2010)}
• 2.3.2. Wide use of neologisms
• The most frequently used are the noncewords, for example,