A STUDY OF THE STYLISTIC FEATURES AND EFFECTS OF ENGLISH FOOTBALL NEWS

Jing Huang; Shuo Cao; Fang Yue

doi:10.46281/aijssr.v10i1.1529

Jing Huang Dalian University of Technology Dalian, China https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9571-481X
Shuo Cao Dalian University of Technology Dalian, China https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3818-9892
Fang Yue Dalian University of Technology Dalian, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46281/aijssr.v10i1.1529

Keywords: English Football News, Stylistic Analysis, Stylistic Effect, Stylistic Feature.

Abstract

The study investigates the stylistic features of English football news from the perspective of general stylistics. Stylistics, as a discipline based on modern linguistic theories, turns to studying non-literary texts from the perspective of stylistics. The study examines English football news from the three levels of stylistic analysis, namely lexis, syntax and semantics. Compared with other news types, English football news are less attracted to linguistics, and most of the previous studies are focused on the research of the title. This study employs samples of English football news from the official website of the 2018 World Cup in Russia. The findings of this study suggest that at the lexical level, the use of technical terms, abbreviation, nicknames, neologism and numbers highlights the uniqueness of English football news in lexical use, thereby saving space, increasing readability and narrowing the distance between news editors and readers; at the syntactic level, the special stylistic features of English football news are mainly reflected in the unmarked theme and singular form of a plural concept; and the use of rhetorical devices such as metaphor, hyperbole and personification to achieve semantic variation reflects the stylistic features of English football news at the semantic level.

JEL Classification Codes: A19, A39, B49, C10, C60.

Author Biographies

Jing Huang, Dalian University of Technology Dalian, China

School of Foreign Languages, Dalian University of Technology Dalian, China

Shuo Cao, Dalian University of Technology Dalian, China

Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Dalian University of Technology Dalian, China

Fang Yue, Dalian University of Technology Dalian, China

School of Foreign Languages, Dalian University of Technology Dalian, China

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