娱乐新闻英语的语篇元功能特征——以美国杂志《公告牌》为例

Features of Textual Metafunction of Journalistic English for Entertainment——Taking American Magazine Billboardas an Example

以娱乐新闻英语为研究对象,以美国杂志《公告牌》中随机选取的15篇流行音乐报道为语料,从主位结构,主位推进模式以及衔接结构三个层面分析这一次语体的语篇元功能特征。研究表明,在主位结构方面,语篇多采用概念主位和无标记主位;在主位推进模式方面,多采用放射型和阶梯型模式;在衔接结构方面,多采用词汇衔接。研究旨在从深层次上解读娱乐新闻英语类语篇,拓宽对新闻英语的研究范围。

The study focuses on journalistic English for entertainment.Based on the fifteen popmusic reports chosen from Billboard randomly,the paper attempts to analyze its textual function in terms of thematic structure,thematic progressive patterns and cohesive structure.It is found that in terms of thematic structure,concept theme and unmarked theme are mainly adopted in the text,and radiation pattern and step pattern are adopted in terms of the thematic progressive patterns while in terms of textual structure,lexical cohesion is employed.The research aims to facilitate the deep understanding of the text and the expansion of the future research scope.