civilian deaths that they blame on U.S. air-strikes. Residents of the town of Farah said there was some gunfire as police faced off against the protesters. Health officials said at least four people were wounded. (VOA, May 8th, 2009)
“They appear to be a diversionary tactic, an effort to change the subject away from the unprecedented debt this budget heaps on future generations,” said House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio.( China Daily, May 8th , 2009)
In broadcasting news, the source of news is not mentioned to avoid the influence of the broadcasting while the source of news in newspaper is clear and precise in order to be exact and persuasive.
Example 3
Lisbon, Dec.29(AFP)……Three armed men wearing wigs held up a Portuguese bank and made off with an undisclosed sum in escudos and Euros….(Financial Times, Feb 5th,2003)
From the BBC World Service in London, the news at three hours GMT. The American Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, has hold a little prospect id a negotiated solution to the standoff between US troops and militants in the Iraqi city of Fulluji.(BBC, April 21,2004)
South Korea nest and the suicide of a top executive at Huandai, he jumped from the 12th floor of the headquarters. At the time of his death he was embroiled in a major bribery scandal involving secret government payment to North Korea. Dana Bash, CNN, the White House.(CNN, August 4th, 2003)
The three pieces of news are employing different openings and closings. The first one is from newspaper with emphasized capitalized words; the second one then announces the source of the news at the very beginning of the news; the third one is more flexible with source set in the closing of the news. These sentences patterns are peculiar to different styles of news and attempt for the same purposes for attention and interests.
3.3 Differences in discourse pattern
After discussing the stylistic features of broadcasting and newspaper on lexical level and grammatical level respectively, let us look into how sentences are arranged into paragraphs and then form a text which has texture, how the discourse of broadcasting and newspaper are presented. The following parts mainly focus on the stylistic features on semantic level.
Both broadcasting and newspaper share the same discourse pattern called “inverted pyramid structure” since they belong to the same register of English journalism. In other words, both of them consist of three parts: title, lead, and body. However, some differences are manifested between them, especially in the lead and body of news report.
(1) The title
The title of a news report is the most important part and it can be perceived as the soul of the news. It is the generalization and centralization of the content of a news report by ways of concise and perspicuous words. Readers can select quickly the section which arouses their interests most when they glance at the title of a news report. Usually, the space of the whole page is divided into six or seven columns, each four or five centimeters in width. Titles can be categorized .into one-column head, double-column head, three-column head, even banner according to the numbers of titles.
As for newspaper, the tile must be the core of the news and it is likely to employ concise and precise. Elliptical and colloquial styles are the common features for newspaper news.&本论文由英语论文网提供整理,提供论文代写,英语论文代写,代写论文,代写英语论文,代写留学生论文,代写英文论文,留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。