ACADEMY OF JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION Faculty of Foreign Languages (An assignment on Stylistics and English Newspaper Style) By: La Chi Cuong – ETE39 Supervisor: Assoc. Nguyen Thanh Huong HANOI, 2021 ABBREVIATIONS 1) Adj : Adjective 2) V : Verb 3) Ved2: Verb past paticiple 4) N : Noun 5) Pre : Prefix 6) Suff : Suffix TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Aims of the study. Limitation of the study.
Methods of the study. Design of the study. Reasons for choosing the topic .1 Reasons for choosing the topic. Reasons for choosing Nytimes, Usatoday, Wsj as the sources.
Typical structure of an article on Nytimes, Usatoday, Wsj. Linguistic features of articles about India's coronavirus second wave on Nytimes.com and Wsj. Syntactical features of articles about India's coronavirus second wave on Nytimes.com and Wsj. Headlines in articles about India's coronavirus second wave on Nytimes.com and Wsj.
Structure of headlines. Headlines in the form of simple sentences. Headlines in the form of a question. Headlines in from of quotation.
―To be‖, Auxiliary omission. Headlines in the form of simple sentences. Headlines in the form of a question. Leads in articales about India‘s coronavirus second wave on Nytimes, Usatoday, Wsj.
The descriptive lead. The summary lead. The contract/conparison lead. Ending in articles about India‘s coronavirus second wave on Nytimes, Usatoday, Wsj.
The summary ending (The lead relay). The restatement ending. The quote ending. Lexical features of articles about India’s coronavirus second wave on Nytimes, Usatoday, Wsj.
Stylistic devices in artcles about India's coronavirus second wave on Nytimes.com and Wsj. Lexical stylistic devices. Syntactical Stylistic Devices. Detached Construction and gap-link.
Relations between parts of articles about India’s coronavirus second wave on Nytimes, Usatoday, Wsj. The relation between headline and its part. Main idea of the article. Expressions about pandamic.
Rationable All of the useful styles as well as the daily paper style have their possess ordinary components. Today‗s life is incredible without the mass media. A part of distinctive printed, and online daily papers, attempt to pull in the perusers. Composing in the daily paper requires embracing an extraordinary sort of fashion that will vary from any other fashion utilized in composing in other disciplines.
The daily paper as a shape of the mass media is known for a few ages. Be that as it may, the examination of the dialect in newspapers has begun as it were within this century. Aims of the study The object of the work is the investigation of English articles about India's coronavirus second wave on Nytimes.com and Wsj. The aim of presented research is to ívestigate the structure, stylistic and lexical features of the topic given above.
To achieve this aim the following objectives have been set: To overview the newspaper style To investigate special language features of the headlines. To indicate the frequency of certain stylistic and lexical features used in the articles related to the topic. Limitation of the study The articles can be investigated from different linguistic perspectives. The present paper focuses on the main grammatical as well as lexical language features that create the style of newspaper found in Nytimes, Usatoday and Wsj.
Methods of the study The research methods used in the present study are the following: Descriptive theoretical analysis the features of newspaper style. Descriptive analysis was useful in analyzing the selected examples of articles. Descriptive statistic method was used to indicate the frequency of certain stylistic features revealed by the analysis. The scope of the investigation and inquire about fabric: For the purpose of investigation, 21 instances of article from the American online newspapers Nytimes, Usatoday, Wsj have been used as illustrative examples.
Design of the study The work is composed of a presentation, hypothetical and viable parts, conclusions, and a list of references. Within the presentation, the targets, the aim, the strategies utilized within the investigation as well as the number of analyzed articles are displayed. The theoretical and practical part contains the discussion and analysis of an article‘s structure, syntactical and lexical features about topic Idian's coronavirus second wave on Nytimes, Usatoday, Wsj. Conclusions give the findings and the results of the presented study.
The list of references arranged in alphabetic order presents the used materials. Reasons for choosing the topic 7 2.1 Reasons for choosing the topic The growth in the number of new infections is slowing, and the average number of cases per week in India decreased for the first time since mid- February 2021. Although the growth chart of the number of cases seems to have reversed, curving down, this trend will need to continue in the coming weeks before authorities can make an official statement that the epidemic has reached the peak during this outbreak. According to the Times of India, there are still many uncertainties and explanations such as the high and still increasing positive rate.
Within the past 3 days, the positive test rate in India was 22%. Whereas the scourge circumstance in major cities such as Unused Delhi and Mumbai is steadily stabilizing with restorative oxygen being recharged in time and healing center beds being discharged, the infection is still spreading at a fast rate. Vertigo in southern states and rustic ranges like Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, Assam and Bengal. Many places have forced a two- week statewide bar from May 3 in an exertion to anticipate the spread of the infection.
The need of therapeutic oxygen and clinic beds is accepted to be the cause of the tall mortality rate here. After the moment wave of covid broke out, the circumstance in India got to be increasingly extreme due to its overwhelming affect. The socio-economic circumstance and people's lives are confronting numerous negative impacts, particularly the need of oxygen. Reasons for choosing Nytimes, Usatoday, Wsj as the sources Nytimes, Usatoday and Wsj are an American daily online newpaper.
According to Ebizmba.com, they are all in the top 15 most popular news 8 websites (March 2021), with nytimes have estimated 70 milion unique monthly visitors, wsj have 40 milion visitors and usatoday have 34 milion visitors. Amid the coronavirus wide spread, Nytimes, Usatoday, and Wsj have ceaselessly distributed impactful examinations, news, and examination on the circumstance in numerous nations around the world counting the episode of the moment wave of coronavirus in India. For the reasons above, author decided to choose Nytimes, Usatoday, Wsj as the sources in this assignment. Typical structure of an article on Nytimes, Usatoday, Wsj The structure and layout of a news report is important as it ensures that readers can find the most important information quickly.
The major parts of an article are headline, lead, body and ending. Typical structure of an article on Nytimes, Usatoday and Wsj can be seen in examples below. Nytimes Amid Second Covid Wave, World Responds to Headline India’s Distress Call Countries, companies and powerful members of the diaspora have all pledged to pitch in, but it likely won‘t be Lead enough to stop the unfolding catastrophe. 9 Photo for illustration A man receiving oxygen outside a Sikh house of worship in Delhi on Sunday.Atul Loke for The New York Caption Times NEW DELHI — Oxygen generators from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Raw material for coronavirus vaccines from the United States. Millions in cash from companies led by Indian-American Body businessmen. As a second wave of the pandemic rages in India, the world is coming to the rescue. […] If India were to dramatically ramp up its vaccine manufacturing capacity and give emergency authorization to other vaccine makers, it could potentially curb the worst effects of the second wave.
Ending ―This is the only long-term solution,‖ Dr. ―India has the capability to do it, if the country puts its mind to it.‖ 10 Usatoday Fact check: No link between India’s falling COVID-19 Headline cases and hydroxychloroquine Video for illustration India COVID-19 crisis: Oxygen running out, crematoriums overwhelmed Hospitals around the country are running out of oxygen, Caption andcrematoriums are overwhelmed. 3% of the population is vaccinated. Staff video, USA TODAY The claim: COVID-19 cases in India have declined due to the use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin With 26 million confirmed cases and more than 291,000 deaths due to COVID-19, India has been hit hard by the pandemic.
The country's health care system is Body overwhelmed, its crematoriums are running at full capacity, and just 3% of citizens are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. […] USA TODAY reached out to India's Health and Family Ending Welfare Ministry for comment. 11 Wsj Indian States Impose Curbs on Work, Travel to Help Slow Headline Covid-19 Surge National lockdown ‗not on the cards,‘ as government Lead fears further damage to an already ailing economy Photo for illustration Family members moved a Covid-19 patient to a hospital ward on Friday in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh state. Caption PHOTO: PRABHAT KUMAR VERMA/ZUMA PRESS Indian state governments extended lockdown measures and imposed other new restrictions on Friday as authorities attempted to curb a ferocious and fast-moving Body Covid-19 outbreak that has overwhelmed the country‘s healthcare system.] Even without a broad shutdown, India‘s ―underlying recovery looks set to falter,‖ Darren Aw, an economist with Capital Economics wrote.
Industry ―will still take a Ending blow from voluntary social distancing and a likely hit to incomes,‖ he said. 12 As illustrated above, typical structure of an article on all three website also consists of a headline, and/or subtitle(s), lead, photo(s) and/or video(s) with or without captions, body, ending. Headlines A newspaper headline is a very short summary of a news report. It normally appears in bold and large letters above the article.
Firstly, the reader notes the headline of the article and only after then decides whether to read it or not. Therefore the headlines are one of the most important components of the piece of news writing. Generally, headlines have 2 purposes: (1) to grab the reader‘s attention and (2) to tell the reader what the story is about. (1) Headlines grab the reader‘s attention: India’s Problem Is Now the World’s Problem How India Can Survive the Virus Why Is the Virus Killing So Many Pregnant Women in India? (2) Headlines tell the reader what the story is about: Covid Desperation Is Spreading Across India India running out of oxygen, hospital beds amid unrelenting COVID-19 surge Why India’s Second Covid-19 Surge Is Much Worse Than Its First 13 3.
Leads In a news story article, the lead is the first paragraph (opening paragraph) which places below the headline. A lead is a promise of what's to come, a promise that the piece will satisfy what a reader by answering at least two of the 5WHs and H question: who, what, when, where, why and how. Who is the story about, or Who is the principal person or organization? What has happened, or What will happen? When did, or When will the event happen? Where did, or Where will the event happen? Why did, or Why will this event happen? How did, or How will this event happen? There are numerous sorts of lead: the graphic lead, the story lead, outline lead, the contrast or comparison lead, the stunning articulation lead, the anticipation or mystery lead, the scholarly of verifiable inference lead, etc. The leads within Nytimes, Usatoday, Wsj are moreover the primary sentence (passage) within the articles and reply the address: who, what, when, where, why, and how.
For example: Vaccine shortages, porous borders and fleeing migrant workers have What Who nearby countries fearing that they will share India’s fate. Bodies The body has near connection to other parts of a writting. It gives extra detail and tells the rest of 5WHs, extends on data presented within the lead. It is partitioned into numerous little passages.