| With the development of China's economy and culture and the coming of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, sports competition has become one of the topics that people are mostly concerned about. Various leading newspapers have their own sports editions for sports news. From the perspective of field, tenor and mode, newspaper sports news has become a kind of special sub-genre of journalistic text. However, it has not drawn much attention from linguists. Former researches are conducted mainly from traditional stylistic perspective. On the basis of systemic-functional grammar theories, the author collects samples from domestic and foreign influential English newspapers such as The New York Times, The Guardian, China Daily (English version) and The Washington Post, and makes quantitative analysis by applying the three metafunctions of Halliday's systemic-functional theories, namely experiential function, interpersonal function and textual function. Through the further analysis of the statistical data combined with examples drawn from the sample texts in transitivity, voice, mood, modality, thematic structure and thematic progression, the stylistic features of English newspaper sports news are elicited.
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