英語新聞標題的前景化研究——以《經濟學家》中的標題為例.pdf

1、 分 類 號： H315 單位代碼： 單位代碼：10190 研究生學號： 研究生學號： 201316005 密 級： 無 碩 士 學 位 論 文 A Study of Foregrounding in English News Headlines: A Case in The Economist 英語新聞標題的前景化研究 ——以《經濟學家》中的標題為例 研 究 生 姓

2、研 究 生 姓 名： 名： 刁 麗 杰 專 業(yè)： 業(yè)： 外國語言學及應用語言學 外國語言學及應用語言學 指導教師姓名： 指導教師姓名： 周 爽 指導教師 指導教師職稱 職稱： 教 授 2016 2016 年 4 月 碩 士 學 位 論

3、 文 I Abstract A news headline is not only the essence but also an indispensable component of a piece of news. Thanks to the technological revolution and the increasingly communication in the globe, large numbers of peop

4、le in different countries are eager to know the information over the world. Furthermore, with the development of media industry, news, including news headlines, is presenting its own unique characteristics. It can not on

5、ly summarize the main idea and the topic of a news story, but also convey some emotions and express attitudes in a highly concise way. In order to arouse readers? interest and attract their attention, today?s news headli

6、nes are more abundant at lexical level, more flexible at semantic level and more forms taken at syntactic level. Special writing style as it is, the news headline is different from other kinds of writing styles and even

7、more completely independent of news work, which has been researched by an increasing number of scholars in both ancient and modern times at home and abroad. Foregrounding theory is the hot issue in stylistics and stylist

8、ic analysis at present, which is originated from painting in art, referring to the prominent part that is against the background. The development of foregrounding can be divided into three periods: Russian formalism, Pra

9、gue structuralism and British stylistics. Lately, it is applied to the field of stylistic analysis in linguistics, which means some linguistic features could be highlighted in the background of the whole discourse. In ge

10、neral, foregrounding can be achieved through two ways: deviation and overregularity at such levels as semantics, syntax and phonology. This study will focus on the English news headlines from The Economist of the year 20

11、14 as data from the perspective of foregrounding through deviation and overregularity. Deviation in news headlines is realized at graphological, lexical, syntactic and semantic levels. Graphological deviation is formed b

12、y unconventional use of punctuation, in which commas, question marks and several other types of marks are massively used to realize foregrounding. Lexical deviation is achieved by abbreviation, acronyms and coinages. Syn

13、tactic deviation includes ellipsis and interrogative sentences. Semantic deviation is realized by several kinds of rhetorical devices, such as metaphor, metonymy, personification, allusion, antithesis and so on. Overregu

14、larity can be categorized as phonological and syntactic overregularity. The former one contains alliteration and rhyme, the latter one is mainly about repetition and parallelism. Finally, a combination of method of quali