| China Daily is one of the most popular English newspapers in China which owns a quite large population of readers and takes the responsibility of sending Chinese voice overseas.Meanwhile, as a well-known professional business news media, The Economist has been keeping enduring strength and its oversea subscriptions take up more than 83 percent in its total circulations. The previous studies rarely compare the stylistic characters of business news reports between Chinese media and its counterpart in western countries. To fulfill this gap, this study selects the euro zone crisis news reports as corpora under the theoretical framework of Leech and Short’s stylistic theory and then constructs the self-made small-sized corpus CDC and TEC to compare the eighteen stylistic characters in business news report between China Daily and The Economist. The thesis finds that there are five stylistic similarities as well as thirteen stylistic differences between China Daily and The Economist samples.The stylistic similarities in lexical category include the ratios of adjective and verb; the grammatical similarities include the ratio of passive and the ratio of subjective clause; the similarity in cohesion & context is the ratio of coordination.The stylistic differences in lexical category include: 1) STTR of English business news in The Economist(74.69) is higher than that of China Daily(73.70), which means the vocabulary of The Economist is more diverse. 2) The word length of China Daily business news(5.06) is longer than The Economist samples(4.93); 3) the ratio of noun in China Daily business news report(25.34/100 words) is higher than The Economist samples(22.67/100words); 4)China Daily business news owns a larger lexical density(46.40/100words) than The Economist samples(42.29/100 words). The differences in grammatical category include: 1) the sentence length of China Daily business news(26.06) is longer than The Economist samples(21.57); 2)The ratios of attributive clause, adverbial clause and objective and appositive clauses in China Daily business news are 1.36/100 words, 1.60/100 words and3.25/100 words respectively, they are all higher than the ratio of The Economist samples(0.71/100 words, 0.93/100 words, 1.74/100 words);The differences in figure of speech:1) The Economist business news use metaphor, parody, repetition in headlines while therhetoric devices in China Daily samples confines to metaphor; 2) the ratio of metaphor used in The Economist business news is 0.31/100 words, the ratio of metaphor used in China Daily samples is 0.18/100 words. The differences in cohesion and context include: 1) the ratio of subordination in The Economist business news(1.58/100 words) is higher than China Daily samples(1.25/100 words); 2) China Daily business news use more direct speeches & indirect speeches than The Economist samples.From the differences above, compared with The Economist business news, China Daily business news has a lower lexical diversity, however, the words in China Daily business news are more difficult to read and convey more information; China Daily business news has a lower lexical diversity, however, the words in China Daily business news are more complex and convey more information; the sentences of China Daily business news are more complex;China Daily business news use less rhetoric devices in news; the news is less attractive to readers; China Daily business news rely more on the direct speeches and indirect speeches and The Economist business news tend to rely on more analysis; the sentences of China Daily business news are less logically connected.This thesis chooses euro zone debt crisis as corpora and makes the stylistic comparison on business news between China Daily and The Economist, deepening the research of English business news and expanding the application scope of stylistic theory of Leech and Short, this study is also has pedagogical value to EFL learning and teaching. |
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