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从中国日报和时代周刊看中西报刊语言的异同
OntheLanguageDifferencesinMagazinesBetweenEastandWest:
aComparativeStudyofChinaDailyandTimes
从中国日报和时代周刊看中西报刊语言的异同
Abstract
ThispaperillustratestheartisticexpressiveeffectsofthedifferencebyanalyzingChinese-EnglishnewspaperChinadailyandEnglish-EnglishnewspaperTimes.Inordertoimprovethequalityofnon-nativeEnglishnewspapers,andmakethemlearnfromeachotherbycultureinclusiveness.
Inaddition,examinationofdifferencesbetweenChineseEnglishtextsandnativeEnglishtextsnotonlyfacilitatesinterculturalcommunicationbetweenChinaandothercountries,especiallyEnglish-speakingcountriesintheworld,butalsobringssomeinsightstothewidespreadofEnglishinChinaandfurtherrecognitionandstandardizationofnewspaper’swriting.
Keywords：
Contrastivewritingpatterns；rhetoricalpatterns;Newspapertext
摘要
本文旨在从文体学的角度阐述英语报刊文章的语言特色,从而为报刊语言的发展，报纸的形式以及中国文化下的报刊可以向西方报刊值得借鉴的东西提供一些参考。
此外，报刊的阅读对写作水平也有一定的提高，通过对两份报纸的比较，找出写作的一些重要信息。
关键词：
写作方式对比研究；修饰模式；新闻报刊
CONTENTS
Chapter1Introduction………………………………………………………………...…1
1.1BackgroundInformation………………………………………………...1
1.2ResearchQuestions………………………………………………………2
Chapter2AContrastiveAnalysisofArticlesbetweenChinadailyandTimes……….3
2.1RhetoricApplication……………………………………………………..4
2.2LanguageDifference…………………………………………………...5
2.3ParagraphDevelopment…………………………………………………6
Chapter3ImplicationforChinese-EnglishnewspaperandNativeEnglishNewspaper…………………………………………………………………..9
3.1ImplicationsforInterculturalCommunication……………………….10
3.2ImplicationsforContrastiveTextStudies……………………………11
3.3ImplicationsforEFLPedagogy……………………………………….12
Chapter4Conclusion…………………………………………………………………….13
References……………………………………………….…………………………..……14
Chapter1Introduction
1.1BackgroundInformation
TheglobalizationofEnglishinthepastfewdecadeshelpstopromoteadramaticallyincreasingnumberofEnglishlearnersandusersinChina.Additionally,inrecentyearsmoreandmoreEnglishnewspapersandmagazinesarereleasedbyvariousChineseorganizationsandsocieties,whichgreatlyfacilitiesChina’sinternationalcommunication.Intheacademiccircle,scholarsadvocatethatonmaintainingthecommoncoreofinternationalEnglish,eachnationshouldkeepitsownnationalidentity,forlanguageisnotonlythecarrierofculture,butalsopartofculture.Thisfact,however,servesthatonadoptingtheinternationalformulaofEnglish,Englishtextsunderdifferentculturalbackgroundsalsomaintaintheirownwritingtraditions.Thisphenomenoncanalsobeinterpretedbythecontrastiverhetorichypothesisthatthereexistpreferredrhetoricalstyleswithintext,whicharespecifictocultural-linguisticcommunities.Thefounderofcontrastiverhetoric,AmericanappliedlinguistRobertKaplan（1966:
13）statedthatlanguageandwritingareculturespecific,andthereforeitvariesfromculturetocultureandevenfromtimetotimewithinagivenculture.ThedifferenceinrhetoricreflectsthemainstreamwritingconventionsuniquetoeachcultureContrastiverhetoricisafieldofinquirythatfocusesonthedifferentwritingconventionsoftext.Althoughoriginallyproposedasapedagogicalsolutiontotheproblemofsecondlanguage（L2）organizationalstructures,
contrastiverhetorichasseenasignificantgrowthasanindependentdisciplinewithcontinuousmodificationsandperfectionshavingbeenmadeinthepastfourdecades.Duringthe1980s,thedevelopmentofresearchapproaches,suchastextlinguisticsanddiscourseanalysis,helpedtoimprovethemethodologicalorientationofcontrastiverhetoricresearch（Enkvist,1987;Leki,1991）.Asaresult,researchershavebeguntostudyorganizationalstructuresofbothfirstlanguage（L1）andL2writtendiscoursemorevigorouslyandsystematically（Martin,1992）,andcontrastiverhetorichascometobedefinedinabroaderterm,encompassingmorethanjusttheorganizationalstructures（Conner,1996;Ostler,1996）.
ThecontrastiverhetoricstudybetweentheChineseandEnglishwritingshasalsowitnessedaflourishinthepastfortyyears.However,mostoftheresearcheshavebeenconductedeitherbetweenChinesetextsandEnglishtextsorbetweenChineseEnglishasaforeignlanguage（EFL）students’EnglishcompositionsandnativeEnglish-speakingstudents’compositions.Fewcomparisonshavebeenmadebetween“accomplished”EnglishtextswrittenbyChinese-speakingwritersandEnglish-speakingwriters.Besides,newspaperargumentativearticles,amajormassmediagenrewhichbearsagreatinfluenceuponboththegeneralpublicandtheacademiccircle,havenotbeenadequatelystudied.Addressingsome
methodologicalinsightsfromthepreviousstudies,thepresentstudytakesthethematicprogressionandtheoryofcohesionoftextlinguisticsasitsanalyticframeworksandfocusesonsomefeaturesoftext-levelrhetoricwhichcanbeobservedinnewspaperargumentativetextswrittenindifferentculturalbackgrounds,inthehopeofcontributingknowledgetothesimilaritiesanddifferencesinrhetoricalpatternsbetweenChineseEnglish
1.2ResearchQuestions
1.what’sthedifferencebetweenchinadailyandtimesinlanguage?
2.what’sthedifferencebetweenchinadailyandtimesinparagraphdevelopment?
3.CanwritingbeimprovedbyreadingnativeEnglishnewspaper?
Chapter2AContrastiveAnalysisofArticlesbetweenChinaDailyandTimes
Inthischapter,thefindingsarediscussedfollowingtheresearchquestionsconcerningtherhetoricapplication,wordscontrastandparagraphdevelopingmodelsoftheselectedtexts.Basedonthisdiscussionfurtherimplicationsarerevealedinthenextchapter.
2.1RhetoricApplication
TheresultsrevealthattherhetoricalfeaturesofargumentativetextsfromChinaDailyandTimesbearbothsimilaritiesanddifferences,allofwhichmustbeseenastendencies,giventhesmallsizeofthesample.Theprincipalresultsoftheinvestigationarediscussedinaccordancewiththeresearchquestions.
ThedifferencesbetweenChinaDailytextsandTimestextsinthematicprogressionshowdifferentwaysofexpressionoftwovariableEnglishtexts,inlightofthefactthatParallelProgressionandLinearProgressiondenotedifferentwaysofexpressionrespectively.ParallelProgressionsharesthesamethemebutdifferentthemes.Inotherwords,itbuildsallthenewinformationonthesamegiveninformation,oraroundthesamecentraltopic.Inthissense,itcanbetakenasalinearwayofexpression.Andthefactthat52.6%ofthethematicprogressionemployedinNYTtextsisParallelProgressionindicatesthemainstreamwayofexpressioninnativeEnglishtextsislineardevelopment.Thisresulthasalsobeenensuredbythelaterfindingsoflinearandnon-linearparagraphdevelopingmodelsofbothnewspapertexts.SincelinearwayofexpressionissoprevailinginNYTtexts,itcannotbeneglectedeitherthatParallelProgressionalsorankssecondinCDtexts,whichmayshowthatChineseEnglishtextsalsohasacomparativelylargetendencyoflinearwayofexpression.Theremaybetworeasonsforthistendency.First,theevermorefrequentinterculturalcommunicationwithothernationsintheworldleadstotheacceptanceofgeneralinternationalnormsaswellasthecommonlanguageregulation.Itistruethatinusingalanguage,whethernativeorforeign,onecannotavoidrevealinghisnationalimprint.Butanever-growingcontactbetweenpeoplefromdifferentnationsrequiresaswift,directandeasy-goingwayofexpressioninordertomeetsuccessininterculturalcommunication.ThelinearwayofexpressioninwesterntraditionthusmeetsthisrequirementandprevailsalongwiththeEnglishlanguage.ChineseEnglishtexts,whichadheretothelinguisticnormofEnglishlanguageononehand,alsokeepabalancebetweenEnglishandChineserhetoricaltraditionsaswell.Inrecentyears,itevenhasatrendforChineseEnglishtextstoadheremoretotheEnglishwayofexpression.
Second,newspaperargumentativetextsasagenrealsoattributestothehighusageoflineardevelopment.Thepurposeofnewspaperargumentativearticlesistoinfluencetheopinionsofreadersonsomecontroversialissue.Therefore,itrequiresanexplicitwayofargumentationandreasoning,whichservesbesttotheconstructionofopinion.AlthoughlinearwayofexpressioninbothCDtextsandNYTtextsbecomesaprominentfeature,itisalsonoteworthythatinCDtexts,morethan50%ofthethematicprogressionemployedisLinearProgression.InLinearProgression,thethemeorpartofthethemeofpreviousutterancedevelopsintoanewtheme,withwhichanewthemeiselicitedandthisthemeorpartofthisthemeagainbecomesthethemeofthenextutterance.
ThistypeofprogressionresemblesthetraditionalChineserhetoricaldeviceofChainRepetition,whichmeansjoinheadandtailoftheadjacentsentence.AlthoughLinearProgressioncannotbesimplytakenasalinearornon-linearwayofexpression,thehighemploymentofitinCDtextsshowsaculturaltransferofChineserhetoricaltradition
2.2LanguageDifference
Thenewsisbasedonthefeaturesofitsshortagecomparingwithotherarticles.Inthatcase,itshouldlistthemaininformationofthenews,andthefollowingsareleastimportantinformationinaccordancetoreaders’courisity.Themethodsofnewswritingcanbecategizedintotwoways:
Oneisaccordingtothetime,andtheotherisfrommostimportanttoleastimportantone.Besidesnewsarecloselyrelatedtoordinarypeople’slifesothatthewordarerequiredtobeeasilyunderstood.,takingChinadailyasanexample.SinceitisaChinese-Englishnewspaper,andmainlywrittenbyChineseEnglishlearners,thelanguagearewritte
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