A Study On The Use Of Words In Sports News

Words or expressions used for sports news are special or common words inreporting sports news. in possession of special functions. It is notoriously significantboth in theory and practice to analyze the application of words or expressions insports news on the basis of lexicology, rhetoric, stylistics, social linguistics andcognitive linguistics as well.Sports news mainly reported sports events, which determines the language withits own distinctive characteristics: (1) Choose metaphorical terms to enhance readers'cognitive experience. Sports news makes use of the mapping of numerous sourcedomains so that its language can be construed by virtue of familiar, tangible andconcrete concepts for people so as to enhance people's cognitive experience andhighlight the diversity of sports. (2) Pay much attention to words or expressions inorder to reflect readers' emotional tendency. Affective meanings of words orexpressions are able to convey a variety of supplementary information in sports newsto meet audiences' emotional needs, in addition to this, to bring the agitation andpropaganda effects of sports news into play. (3) Use rhetoric to enhance the vitality ofthe news. To select appropriate rhetorical devices in sports news is useful for not onlyclear, good description and explanation but also vivid and concise language to leave adeep impression on audiences. (4) Adopt new fashionable words or expressions tohighlight the times of news. (5) Utilize quantitative terms to display the specialty ofnews.Words or expressions employed in sports news are not a stable, self-sufficientsymbolic system, which will vary according to different factors like socialenvironment, audiences' psychology and self-development, even the generalization ofword meanings will occur. The generalization phenomenon of expressions of sportsnews is an important manifest for the development of modern Chinese vocabulary; ituses the existing vocabulary to express rich and colorful content of different socialfields, which receives vivid, lively, artistic effects and possesses a sense of humor and irony in terms of concise language. There is on doubt that it is of great significancefor both lexicology and rhetoric.It is an important guideline and method for writing a piece of dissertation to holdabundant language materials and make precise data statistics for them. Based on thequantitative analysis for characteristics of expressions in sports news and theirgeneralization phenomenon, we summarized important stylistic features of theexpressions applied in sports news as follows: metaphor, specialty, vitality andemotional tendency.