• Newspaper • Function ternor: to tell us news • Mode: is written to be read with the eye • Personal ternor: its different cateories and different fo Nhomakorabeamats
The English of News Reporting as a Variety
• News reporting • news by newspaper • news by radio and television
The English of News Reporting as a Variety
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
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.
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(3)Use of heavily modified nominal groups
(4)Use of simple verbal groups
lexical features
(1)Preference for journalistic words and set expressions
(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. • explained the teacher, laughted the mayor, shrugged a Defense
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 short statement-type sentences
• And the cost of removing last winter's mountainous snows has strained the budgets of some localities in the Northeast and Midwest.Not so,however,in the Sunbelt.
present different degrees of formality.
The English of News Reporting as a Variety
• News by Radio and Television • They are commonly referred to as newscasts which are
• aim(purpose design object intention) • bid(appeal offer endeavour attempt) • deal(negotiation bargain transaction) • according to eyewitness with guarded reserve on the brink of a
General Features of Newspaper Reporting
• 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
• His parents were great people,of course,but their way of living was too materialistic.All they thought about was work,make the payments on a house,and gripe about inflation. Not for him. He had discovered a new freedom of thought.
and the use of clear,direct,and vivid language.
Stylistic Features of Newspaper Reporting
1. Graphological Features 2. Grammtical Features 3. Lexical Features 4. Semantic Features