Abstract: Reading news is an irreplaceable way to know what is going on in the world. English news plays an important role in the communication between east and west. As an indispensable part of news, news headlines stand in an essential position as they are the first introduction of news reports. Whether the reader would continue to read the news stories under the headlines mostly depends on the quality of the news headline. In this modern society, with fast pace of work and life, people are eager to attain more information in short time so that news headlines are required to be accurate, concise and vivid. If people who have little knowledge about the features of English news headlines, they would have difficulties in reading them. In this paper, the writer analyzes the features of English news headlines from lexical, grammatical and rhetorical perspective, and its help to news readers and editors. Not only can it makes the readers better understand what implies in the news headlines, but also it can play a significant role to help editor better edit the headlines.
Key words: English news headline; lexical features; grammatical features; rhetorical features
摘要：阅读新闻是我们了解世界的一种不可替代的方式。英语新闻在中西方交流上起到了重要的影响。作为新闻中不可缺少的一部分，新闻标题的地位举足轻重，英语论文，因为它们首先对新闻报道做出了介绍。读者是否会继续阅读标题下的新闻取决于新闻标题的质量。在当今社会，随着生活和工作节奏的加快，英语论文范文，人们渴望在最短的时间内获得尽可能多的信息。这就要求新闻标题是精确的，简洁的并且生动的。如果读者不了解英语新闻标题的特点，那么他们阅读起来就会有困难。本文从词汇，语法和修辞的角度探讨了英语新闻标题的特点，并略论了本探讨关于新闻读者和新闻编辑的帮助影响，即可以让读者更好地理解新闻标题内容，也可以帮助编辑更好地编辑新闻标题。
关键词：英语新闻标题；词汇特点；语法特点；修辞特点
With the process of the globalization, China has determined to further enhance the friendly and cooperative relations with any other countries in the world. Therefore, we must be well informed of what happened in other countries. English news accounts for a large proportion in international reports. English news headline, one of the most important parts of a report， is the summary and generalization of the news content. It is usually regarded as “the eyes of the news”. It plays a significant role in pointing out the most valuable parts of a news report. The same content but different news headlines may lead to two distinct reading effect and response. A good news headline not only can use the least amount of words to express what a author wants to express, but also attract readers’ attention and inspire their curiosity. This requires the writing of the news headlines with the principle of accurate, concise and vivid. In this paper, we will discuss the features of the headlines by means of the analysis of some English news headlines. We hope the study could be helpful to the editors and newspaper readers. |
