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应用外语学院2012级1班赵舒畅 学号：20201209170023 文体学作业 Analyzing a News Report : A linguistic Descriptive Approach (By Zhao Shuchang of Grade 2012) At the graphological level Eye-catching headlines To produce prominent eye-catching effects, the headline of the chosen new report ---揃aghdad 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 Short paragraphs can facilitate reading, so apart from headline ,the most obvious visual feature is the use of short paragraphs that makes it easy convenient for the potential readers to follow. As it can be seen, we can easy to know the background of the terrorist attack---the time ,the maker and the injured people. 2.At the lexical level The use of Arabic numerals Journalists have a preference for Arabic numerals: Arabic numerals can be understood universally; Arabica numerals take less time and space to be printed than English equivalents; Arabica numerals can make things more reasonable. Therefore, this news use a lot of Arabica numerals, for example, 51 people, more than 9o,200people, 22miles, wounding 15 and so on. The use of names of place To make the news appear precise and concrete, lots of names of places are given prominence, for instance: Fadhil, Diyala, Sadr City, Khalis,Iskandariyah,Duluiyah,Anbar and so on. 3.At the syntactical level Sentence types and complexity In the sample news report, these news are statements suitable for the dominant function of giving information .Besides ,the journalists usually alternate between the use of long and short, complex and simple sentences to make the reading easier and give variety to the rhythm of the article and to break the boredom of reading. Frequent use of quotations phrases For the same reason as that of the sentence complexity in the news report , quotations phrases are frequently used to make it convinced and save the space. Instance are listed as follows: “The o