Some Analysis on News Headline’s Features and Styles 英语论文.docVIP

Some Analysis on News Headline’s Features and Styles [abstract] with the process of the globalization, more and more english newpapers are placed on chinese people’s tables. therefore, english headline becomes one of the reflections of their cultural characteristics of the english speaking countries. this paper will present a general summary of english news headline’s features and styles. meanwhile, many concrete examples are attached to each feature to illustrate it clearly. [key words] english news headline features styles 1 .introduction as china’s reform and opening policy progress and china has more contact with the outside world, we must be well-informed of what happens in other countries. one important way to achieve this end is to read english language newspapers. however, reading english language newspaper is not only an effective way to gain proficiency in english language, but also an access to know the english-speaking countries’ culture. as an applied language variety, journalistic english has its unique features at various language level, such as lexical level, grammatical level, and rhetorical level and it is independent from general english. these features pose challenges to chinese students. once these linguistic rules and principles are understood, many of the difficulties will disappear. english news headline is one of the active elements of journalistic english. newspaper headline is the heading printed in large letters above a story in a newpaper. it is the most important part of a news story for several reasons. firstly, it usually summaries the whole story so the hurried reader can get the gist of the story at a glance. secondly, the headline draws the readers’ attention to the story. a good headline should be attractive, and be able to catch the readers’ attention once his eyes fall upon it. thirdly, the headline helps the reader evaluate the news. since the headline summarizes the story, is expresses the theme, topic or subject of the story.