文档介绍：Stylistic Analysis of News Reports
Conclusion
Graphological Features 语相特征
Lexical Features 词汇特征
Syntactic/Grammatical Features
Semantic Features 语义特征
Stylistic features of English news reports include:
句法和语法特征
Analyzing Passage one: A Linguistic Descriptive Approach
(P161)
Please pay attention to the characteristics of sentences in this news report.
Points:
Please mark all the punctuations in this news report.
Please observe the structure features.
Eye-catching headlines
To produce prominent eye-catching effects, “Baghdad Market Is Hit by 3 Bombs” is printed in bold type, and in large fonts that forms a sharp contrast with the news lead in smaller fonts.
Short paragraphs
The use of short paragraphs is easy and convenient for the potential readers to follow. As we can see, passage one is split into 12 smaller paragraphs containing 19 sentences. Therefore, we can easy to know the background of the terrorist attack---the time, the maker and the injured people.
At the lexical level
The use of Arabic numerals
Journalists have a preference for Arabic numerals:
Arabic numerals can make things more reasonable;
Arabic numerals can be understood universally;
Arabic numerals take less time and space to be printed than English equivalents.
It uses a lot of Arabica figures to illustrate the number of injured or dead people, the related dates, and the distance of some locations.
The use of abbreviations
To save time and space, abbreviations are used in the news report.
The use of short power words
Short powerful words are very simple and easy-to-understand and space-saving. These words also sound vivid and exciting, especially in the headline.
The use of names of places and people
To make the news appear precise and concrete, lots of names of places and people are given prominence.
The use of clichés and set expressions
This news report was posted on the same day that the car bombing happened. Under great time pressure, the editor has to rely on tho