英文报刊新闻标题中的名词化隐喻分析

Analysis of Nominal Metaphor in the Titles of News Reports from English Newspapers

名词化隐喻的使用一直被看作科技语篇的一个主要特点,然而新闻标题中的名词化也是一个不容忽视的现象。本文以《洛杉矶时报》、《华盛顿邮报》等报刊新闻为例,以韩礼德的名词化隐喻理论为依据,分析了报刊新闻标题中的名词化现象。名词化作为构建概念语法隐喻的最有力的手段,对实现新闻标题所要求的简洁凝练、客观公正,以及新闻报道间的语篇衔接都起到重要作用。

Nominal metaphor has always been considered as an important feature of scientific text.However,we can also find much use of it in titles of news reports.This paper takes a few news reports from ＂Los Angeles Times＂ and ＂The Washington Post＂ as examples and analyzes nominalization used in the titles of news reports based on the nominal metaphor theory of Halliday.As the most powerful means to construct conceptual grammatical metaphor,nominalization plays an important role in making titles of news reports concise,objective and coherent.