| While doing English news reading, many people can recognize whether a passage is written by a Chinese journalist or by a native English one after their reading several sentences, when there are no mistakes in grammar and syntax. How do people achieve the intuition? What kind of differences are there in writing between Chinese journalists and native English ones? From stylistic perspective, the thesis has conducted a systematic study of these questions. Two corpora with texts collected from China Daily and USA Today are used for doing the research.The main emphasis of the thesis is exhaustive exploration and comparison on stylistics of the two corpora. It helps readers get a better understanding of stylistic characteristics of business news in newspapers of China and America. The thesis collects two hundred of texts from the business section of the two kinds of newspapers. To keep the result accurate, all the texts selected from the websites of www.chinadaily.com.cn and www.usatoday.com were published between March and May in 2014. With help of instruments, such as SPSS(Statistic Package for Social Science), Antconc and Chi-square test, the thesis applies both quantitative and qualitative methods to completing the research and analysis. It makes a comprehensive comparison of data analysis of business news from the two newspapers. Based on the detailed research, the thesis has proposed some tentative suggestions in business news writing to China’s English learners and journalists. |
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