Linguistic Features of the Headlines of the News Report in China Daily and Washington Post25

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1、LinguisticFeaturesoftheHeadlinesoftheNewsReportinChinaDailyandWashingtonpostAbstract：ThispaperpresentsananalyticalstudyofthelinguisticfeaturesofthenewsreportheadlinesofChinaDailyandWashingtonPostatlexical,sententialandrhetoriclevels.Toconductthisstudy,theauthorcollected100newsreporthe

2、adlinesfromthetwonewspapers.Statisticalanalysisgeneratedthefollowingfindings:First,ChinaDailyandWashingtonPostdonotvarytoomuchintheuseofverbs,nounsandadjectives.ChinaDailyusesmoresimpleverbs,propernouns,abbreviationsandacronymswhileWashingtonPostusesmoreverbphrases.Fewadjectiveswerefo

3、undintheheadlinesofChinaDailyandWashingtonPost.However,theheadlinesinChinaDailyuseacronymslikeUSandUNwhileWashingtonPostrefersthemasU.S.andU.N.initsheadlines.Besides,WashingtonPostcapitalizeseverycontentwordbutChinaDailydoesnot.Second,thelengthofnewsheadlinesofChinaDailyandWashingtonP

4、ostarebothshort.Onaverage,thenewsheadlinesinChinaDailyhaveanaverageof6.4wordswhereastheheadlinesinWashingtonPosthaveanaverageof6.8words.BothChinaDailyandWashingtonPostemployalmostthesameamountofellipticalsentencesandcompletesentences.Finally,bothChinaDailyandWashingtonPostfavormanypop

5、ularrhetoricaldevicesintheirnewsreportheadlines.WashingtonPostusesmorealliterationinheadlines.ChinaDailyadoptsmoremetaphors.ChinaDailyandWashingtonPostbothuserhymeandmetonymyintheheadlinestoimpressonthereaders.Itishopedthatthestudycanshedlightonthelinguisticfeaturesofthenewsreporthead

6、linesofChinaDailyandWashingtonPostandalsoprovidehelptolearnerwritersinnewsEnglish.Keywords:newsreportheadlinesChinaDailyWashingtonPost25《中国日报》和《华盛顿邮报》新闻句型对比研究摘要:本文着重从词汇、句法以及修辞方面分析和比较《中国日报》和《华盛顿邮报》新闻标题的语言特点。本文作者从《中国日报》和《华盛顿邮报》收集了100条各类新闻标题。数据分析的结果如下：首先，《中国日报》和《华盛顿邮报》的新闻标题在动词，名词以及形容词的使用

7、上没有明显的区别。《中国日报》的新闻标题使用的简单动词，专有名词，缩略词以及首字母缩略词多于《华盛顿邮报》，而《华盛顿邮报》的新闻标题使用的动词词组多于《中国日报》。两者的标题内都很少用形容词。但是《中国日报》使用像US和UN等一些首字母缩略词，《华盛顿邮报》却用：U.S.和U.N.。此外，《华盛顿邮报》标题内每个实词的首字母都大写，而《中国日报》没有。其次，《中国日报》和《华盛顿邮报》新闻标题的长度都很短。《中国日报》新闻标题的平均长度只有6.4个单词，而《华盛顿邮报》只有6.8个单词。《中国日报》和《华盛顿邮报》的新闻标题在省略句和完整句使用数量上几乎相等。最

8、后，《中国