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A Contrastive Study of Judgment System between Chinese and English Hard News

Author: TianFen
Tutor: LiuShiZhu
School: Shandong University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Hard news Evaluation System Evaluation system
CLC: H315
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
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Abstract

News reports, the nearest to the fact the masses For unknown facts. According to the different characteristics, news reports can be divided into different categories, such as hard news and soft news. The hard news is a term derived from the Western Journalism refers to the subject matter is serious, focused on the ideological guidance and knowledge of the political, economic, technological news, news related to the national economy and people's vital interests. Audience reading or audio-visual kind of news can only produce delay compensation effect, it has a very strict time requirements, the report must be fast, as accurate as possible, as much as possible to quantify the characteristics of the information. Soft news thicker humane society news (social gossip, entertainment news, sports news, news service), formally the popular focus on fun. It does not have a clear time defined mostly delayed news, time urgency. And the vital interests of the people, to provide entertainment to the audience, broaden their horizons and increase their knowledge, strive. The source of this corpus is hard news in English and Chinese economic news. News concept and characteristics of the news reports should be based on the facts objectively reflect events and maintain a neutral attitude. This idea, however, affected by the different social, cultural, awareness of the concept and the political and economic reality by the new challenges. This article is only on the argument of hard news economic news, analyze the similarities and differences in the Chinese and English on the evaluation system of the hard news. Analysis of the differences, the authors analyze the reasons for these differences. The evaluation system is systemic functional linguistics new areas of research, it is by James Martin PRRWhite, proposed and developed. It is concerned with the attitude of the people in the communication process, the expression of feelings and values. Exchange of words in the discussion and analysis, research information exchange between people, and tried to judge this interpersonal. Therefore, in the field of discourse, this study is widely carried out (see White, 1998; Martin Rose, 2003; Martin White, 2005) evaluation system is a multi-dimensional system including attitudes, involvement and differential subsystem. Each subsystem contains the respective subsystem. Example: attitude System. Attitude system is judged according to the different values ??of both exchanges, the emotion of the exchange process can be divided into emotion, judgment, and appreciation of three subsystems. These three systems is the traditional emotional, ethical and aesthetic. This thesis the only judge system, for example, so here only on the evaluation system. The evaluation system is people praise, criticism, praise or rebuke behavior and attitude (Martin White, 2005). Social practice, can be divided into affirmative and negative attitude. (White, 2005) In general, according to the content and extent of the evaluation, the evaluation system is divided into social dignity and social license. Social dignity can be divided into conventional or customary, ability, toughness three subcategories; social license can be divided into two aspects of authenticity and reasonable. On the whole, the social dignity and social license can be divided into positive and negative two tendencies. This article is PRRWhite on the evaluation system for the classification of (www.grammatics.com / Appraisal) to analyze the evaluation system. UAM is based on the evaluation system of science and technology software for statistical and analytical discourse to convey information in respect of various evaluation categories. After tagging, statistics and analysis of the selected corpus draw the following in common: the evaluation system of the Chinese-English hard news, normality than any other system; visual expression is far more than an implicit expression; positive characteristics in the negative features. The difference is: in normality, Tenacity, propriety, ambiguous, Positiv characteristics, Chinese and English corpus a big difference, are more Chinese than English (normality50.61% GT; 40.08%; Tenacity 5.92% gt; 9.28% ; propriety 10.67% gt; 5.78%; ambiguous 2.38% gt; 0.35%); positive characteristics, more English than Chinese (positive 55.87% gt; 49.20%). due to different cultural backgrounds will have different ways of expressing feelings. Reported in the press, according to different values, ideology reported there will be a different way of expression. At the same time, the audience of the news affected also reported to produce a different interpretation of the same story or similar content. Of this as a demonstration Chinese-English hard news causes of the differences in the evaluation system.

A Contrastive Study of Judgment System between Chinese and English Hard News

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