| News reporting covers an objective and truthful information on events which tookplace recently all over the world, while news commentary is an editor or writer’s voiceabout an event and his or her instructive ideas on a social phenomenon. These twokinds of styles are indispensable to news media and in return influence large amount ofreaders as their major tunnel of receiving important information. Metadiscourse,therefore, plays a vital role in both of the two styles, which makes news reporting morecoherent and fluent and at the same time helps readers to better project themselves intotheir writing and build a good relationship with their readers to make their voices moreacceptable and persuasive.The present paper adopts the classification of metadiscourse raised by Hyland in2005. In the book, he divides metadiscourse as interactive and interactional resourcesand classifies each with five subcategories respectively. The texts used in this thesis areall handpicked from Pulitzer prizes from2009to2012, with30English news reportingand30English news commentaries. The author puts forward three questions at first.(1)What are the features of English news reporting and English news commentaries inemploying metadiscourse respectively?(2)What are the similarities and differencesbetween English news reporting and English news commentaries in employingmetadiscourse?(3)What enlightenment can we get?The results show that:(1) Metadiscourses are applied in both English newsreporting and commentary and the frequency of using interactive resources is higherthan that in interactional resources in the two corpora;(2) English news reportingemploys much more interactive resources than commentary while the latter applieslarger number of interactional resources;(3) Among each subcategories, transitions aremost frequently being used, and the employment of evidentials, hedges, attitude markers, engagement markers and self-mentions have significant differences in the twocorpora. |
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