Discourse Analysis on Sports News in Terms of Its Features

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Discourse Analysis on Sports News in Terms of Its Features CONTENTS 1 Introduction 2 The English of sports news as a variety 2.1 Theoretical foundations 2.2 Newspaper reading: part of people’s daily life 2.3 Sports news 2.4 Straight news 3 Analysis of Stylistic features of sports news 3.1 Grammatical features 3.2 Lexical features 3.3 Semantic features 3.4 Graph logical features 3.5 Textual features 4 Conclusion. Bibliography. 1.Introduction American is a nation fond of sports and there are large numbers of works of sports news which provide us with a rich source to analyze the discourse of it. There is a long tradition of sports writing in American literature. Many of the most acclaimed writers either began as sports writers or found themselves inexorably drawn to the subject later. The present descriptions of news features are not able to account for or accommodate sports news in an all-round way, and some deeper approaches are required.This thesis provides much-needed descriptions of sports news.Analysis of grammatical features,lexical features,semanticfeatures,graphological features, and, in particular, textual features, have revealed the quite unsuspected pattern of language, sports news. In this thesis, sports news language is analyzed in the “context of culture”. In taking linguistic analysis from description to explanation, register analysis brings significant enrichment to it, often providing an answer to the oft-repeated question in discourse studies: “Why is sports news written in the way it is?” This thesis tries to describe sports news features as they are encountered in real contexts of use in extended stretches of sports news discourse. 2. Literature Review 2.1 Theoretical foundations Stylistics is a linguistic approach to the study of literary texts. It

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