A Contrastive Stylistic Analysis Of Economic News Text In VOA And CRI

This study aims to do a contrastive research on the stylistic features of the economic reports between VOA and CRI.70 pieces of reports are randomly selected from both VOA and CRI economic reports as the samples of the study. In order to approach the characteristic of this style, it analyzes the reports from the level of graphology, lexis and syntax. It gives the answers for four research questions:1. What are the stylistic features of economic reports of VOA and CRI at graphological, lexical, and syntactic levels? 2. What are the similarities of the stylistic features for the economic reports between the two? 3. What are the differences of the stylistic features for the economic reports between them? 4. What are the stylistic effects caused by the use of each stylistic feature at the three levels?Through quantitative and qualitative analysis of the samples, such conclusion is reached:at graphological level, the quotation mark is commonly used to realize three types of stylistic effects. The characteristic at lexical level is the frequent use of proper nouns, the technical words and figures. At syntactic level, the noun phrase, the verbal phrase, sentence type, direct speech and indirect speech are the common stylistic features. SPSS analysis reflects that the features of economic reports in VOA and those in CRI have no significant difference in terms of simple sentences, noun phrases with pre-modification, noun phrases with post-modification, finite verbs, non-finite verbs and technical words. The stylistic features are significantly different in terms of proper nouns, figures, complex sentences, compound sentences, and compound-complex sentences, noun phrases with both pre-modification and post-modification, direct speech and indirect speech.This study is expected to give some references for the further study of the stylistic analysis of radio English. Besides, the stylistic features of economic reports in VOA and CRI from this study would give some suggestions for English learners to learn and understand the reports well. At last, the results of this study are expected to give some references for the editors to edit the reports.