Vagueness is a natural character of language. Vagueness of journalistic English exists in lexical level and syntactic level as well. Lexical vagueness in journalistic English is usually resulted from the indefinite me...Vagueness is a natural character of language. Vagueness of journalistic English exists in lexical level and syntactic level as well. Lexical vagueness in journalistic English is usually resulted from the indefinite meaning of words, while in syntactic level, it may be resulted from the combined use of vague words or the employment of some sentence patterns. This thesis aims to help readers to understand journalistic English from the perspective of vague language.展开更多
Objectives:This paper focuses on the underlying mechanisms of women's perceptions of persuasive visual health information.Methods:In the image viewing process,a separation between the image producer and the image ...Objectives:This paper focuses on the underlying mechanisms of women's perceptions of persuasive visual health information.Methods:In the image viewing process,a separation between the image producer and the image viewer occurs,and the connection between the two is fractured.This mixed method research included modal discourse analysis(coding based on visual grammar theory),an eye tracking experiment,a questionnaire survey,and in-depth semi-structured interviews.The interactive meanings of journalistic images related to the human papillomavirus(HPV)vaccine were identified through four sets of codes.In addition,the perceptions of female viewers were analyzed.Results:In the first set of stimuli,i.e.,the infographic,the female participants focused most of their attention on information about the nine-valent HPV vaccine.An analysis of the interactive meaning of two sets of journalistic pictures,i.e.,fictional pictures and nonfictional pictures,indicated that the image producers did not implement useful viewer involvement strategies to persuade viewers.Furthermore,female viewers focused their attention on the"similar other"during the viewing process,gazing at the patient the longest as the primary area of interest(AOI).Conclusions:The study indicates that the current persuasive visual information about the HPV vaccine needs further improvement due to the high demand for information about HPV from the Chinese female audience.展开更多
The language itself is experiencing delicate and endless changes with the development of the society. All changes and new things,brought by them,are most represented in mass media,including magazines,newspapers,TV,rad...The language itself is experiencing delicate and endless changes with the development of the society. All changes and new things,brought by them,are most represented in mass media,including magazines,newspapers,TV,radios and etc. In reality,many learners have found that news English from journalistic materials has its own unique features,which seemingly do not meet with general English principles. The more popular dailies use a chatty,slangy,up-to-the moment way of writing,the more bewildered feeling they giving the foreign reader. Therefore,it is necessary to know more about journalistic English. This paper simply presents an analysis of the stylistic features on journalistic English,Analyzing them through three levels: the graphological features,the lexical features,and the syntactic features.展开更多
This paper presents an analysis on how objectivity is discursively constructed in journalistic narratives by drawing on the theories of viewpoint and mental space in Cognitive Linguistics. It is posited that at least ...This paper presents an analysis on how objectivity is discursively constructed in journalistic narratives by drawing on the theories of viewpoint and mental space in Cognitive Linguistics. It is posited that at least three mental spaces are projected by a narrative discourse, i.e., a narrated event space, a narrating space, and a basic space, and the distance between the first two spaces determines the degree of objectivity in the narrative discourse. A schema which represents the configuration of the different spaces is proposed and applied in the analysis of journalistic narratives to explore the strategies of objectivity construction. The analysis reveals that what the different journalistic narratives have in common in the construction of objectivity is to distance the narrated event space and the narrating space with the former being foregrounded in the viewpoint arrangement.展开更多
Peter Newmark’s semantic translation and communicative translation theories play a guiding role in translation practice.Translating long and difficult English sentences into Chinese has been a focus of study among tr...Peter Newmark’s semantic translation and communicative translation theories play a guiding role in translation practice.Translating long and difficult English sentences into Chinese has been a focus of study among translators.The paper explores how to translate long and difficult journalistic English sentences into Chinese from the perspective of semantic translation and communicative translation theories,advancing four effective translating strategies for handling long and difficult journalistic English sentences:sequential translation,splitting translation,reversing translation,and recasting translation,so as to improve the readability and faithfulness of the Chinese version.展开更多
related to journalistic ethics in China and the west.This paper starts with the comparison of journalistic responsibility ethics.Then from different points,I make a comparative analysis of journalistic ethics.
＂I have worked in ten countries as a reporter and been posted in two, China and Japan,＂ said Jonathan Watts, correspondent of The Guardian in Beijing. ＂I think China is the greatest place for journalists.＂
More than 60 overseas media have sent journalists to Urumqi,capital of northwest China＇s Xinjiang region, after a riot broke out in the city Sunday, leaving 156 people dead and 1,080 others injured.
Li Xinfeng, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Scienc- es, served as the chief correspond- ent with the People＇s Daily in South Africa from 1998 to 2005. Li was in charge of the news coverage in the s...Li Xinfeng, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Scienc- es, served as the chief correspond- ent with the People＇s Daily in South Africa from 1998 to 2005. Li was in charge of the news coverage in the southern, eastern and central African regions and traveled across the continent, visiting over 20 AfrF can countries. His bookA Reporter＇s Exploration： Following Zheng He＇s Footsteps in Africa, marks China＇s first book on Zheng He＇s voyage to Africa, which filled the gap in the research on the history of Sino-African relations. Back in the 15th century, Zheng He, a famous Chinese admiral, sailed with his fleet as far as East Africa. Recently, Li spoke to ChinAfrica about his ex- periences in Africa as a journalist.展开更多
文摘Vagueness is a natural character of language. Vagueness of journalistic English exists in lexical level and syntactic level as well. Lexical vagueness in journalistic English is usually resulted from the indefinite meaning of words, while in syntactic level, it may be resulted from the combined use of vague words or the employment of some sentence patterns. This thesis aims to help readers to understand journalistic English from the perspective of vague language.
基金grants from the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities 2021JBW104(Patient Empowerment in the Context of Patient-Centered Communication).
文摘Objectives:This paper focuses on the underlying mechanisms of women's perceptions of persuasive visual health information.Methods:In the image viewing process,a separation between the image producer and the image viewer occurs,and the connection between the two is fractured.This mixed method research included modal discourse analysis(coding based on visual grammar theory),an eye tracking experiment,a questionnaire survey,and in-depth semi-structured interviews.The interactive meanings of journalistic images related to the human papillomavirus(HPV)vaccine were identified through four sets of codes.In addition,the perceptions of female viewers were analyzed.Results:In the first set of stimuli,i.e.,the infographic,the female participants focused most of their attention on information about the nine-valent HPV vaccine.An analysis of the interactive meaning of two sets of journalistic pictures,i.e.,fictional pictures and nonfictional pictures,indicated that the image producers did not implement useful viewer involvement strategies to persuade viewers.Furthermore,female viewers focused their attention on the"similar other"during the viewing process,gazing at the patient the longest as the primary area of interest(AOI).Conclusions:The study indicates that the current persuasive visual information about the HPV vaccine needs further improvement due to the high demand for information about HPV from the Chinese female audience.
文摘The language itself is experiencing delicate and endless changes with the development of the society. All changes and new things,brought by them,are most represented in mass media,including magazines,newspapers,TV,radios and etc. In reality,many learners have found that news English from journalistic materials has its own unique features,which seemingly do not meet with general English principles. The more popular dailies use a chatty,slangy,up-to-the moment way of writing,the more bewildered feeling they giving the foreign reader. Therefore,it is necessary to know more about journalistic English. This paper simply presents an analysis of the stylistic features on journalistic English,Analyzing them through three levels: the graphological features,the lexical features,and the syntactic features.
文摘This paper presents an analysis on how objectivity is discursively constructed in journalistic narratives by drawing on the theories of viewpoint and mental space in Cognitive Linguistics. It is posited that at least three mental spaces are projected by a narrative discourse, i.e., a narrated event space, a narrating space, and a basic space, and the distance between the first two spaces determines the degree of objectivity in the narrative discourse. A schema which represents the configuration of the different spaces is proposed and applied in the analysis of journalistic narratives to explore the strategies of objectivity construction. The analysis reveals that what the different journalistic narratives have in common in the construction of objectivity is to distance the narrated event space and the narrating space with the former being foregrounded in the viewpoint arrangement.
文摘Peter Newmark’s semantic translation and communicative translation theories play a guiding role in translation practice.Translating long and difficult English sentences into Chinese has been a focus of study among translators.The paper explores how to translate long and difficult journalistic English sentences into Chinese from the perspective of semantic translation and communicative translation theories,advancing four effective translating strategies for handling long and difficult journalistic English sentences:sequential translation,splitting translation,reversing translation,and recasting translation,so as to improve the readability and faithfulness of the Chinese version.
文摘related to journalistic ethics in China and the west.This paper starts with the comparison of journalistic responsibility ethics.Then from different points,I make a comparative analysis of journalistic ethics.
文摘＂I have worked in ten countries as a reporter and been posted in two, China and Japan,＂ said Jonathan Watts, correspondent of The Guardian in Beijing. ＂I think China is the greatest place for journalists.＂
文摘More than 60 overseas media have sent journalists to Urumqi,capital of northwest China＇s Xinjiang region, after a riot broke out in the city Sunday, leaving 156 people dead and 1,080 others injured.
文摘Li Xinfeng, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Scienc- es, served as the chief correspond- ent with the People＇s Daily in South Africa from 1998 to 2005. Li was in charge of the news coverage in the southern, eastern and central African regions and traveled across the continent, visiting over 20 AfrF can countries. His bookA Reporter＇s Exploration： Following Zheng He＇s Footsteps in Africa, marks China＇s first book on Zheng He＇s voyage to Africa, which filled the gap in the research on the history of Sino-African relations. Back in the 15th century, Zheng He, a famous Chinese admiral, sailed with his fleet as far as East Africa. Recently, Li spoke to ChinAfrica about his ex- periences in Africa as a journalist.
