English news, as one of the most common practicestyle of modern English, exerts a significant part in people’s daily life andit is divided into oral news and written news which can be discovered onnewspaper, broadcast and Internet. For the reason that people rely on news toget new information, the mainstream media like CNN, a famous basic cable andsatellite television news channel in America, have to be responsible for conveyingthe latest happenings to readers objectively because of its crucial influencesin society.

Stylistic is a subject that uses modernlinguistic theories and methods to study style. Halliday, a linguist whodevelops systemic functional linguistic model of language, suggests that thereare three functions of language—ideational function, interpersonal function andtextual function. And he thinks that field of discourse, mode of discourse andtenor of discourse have close relationships with the use and functions of language,therefore, English news also has its own features and functions differentiatingfrom other kinds of style.

News report can report events in all fields,and the content about domestic and international political issues is a part ofEnglish news. Most countries attach great importance to political and economicnews report as it has significant impacts on society and citizens. One belt OneRoad is a strategy proposed by the Chinese government which is aimed at developingdeep relationships with countries along the routes on many areas and establishinga genuine fate community together. As a great strategy which is related tobenefits of many countries, people from different countries hold variousopinions on one belt and one road. The reports from media of the United States whichis a nation possesses considerable power and complex relationship with China,have a crucial influence on Americans’ opinion, at the same time , it also be affectedby their viewpoints about one belt one road.

This paper will make an analysis from theperspective of stylistics to study the textual structure and language featuresof English news style. Specifically, the paper will explore stylisticcharacteristics of the English news reports on the Chinese policy in Americanmainstream media. For achieving a distinct analysis, this paper will take CNN’sreports about “one belt one road” as an example. On the one hand, the stylisticanalysis will present the features of English news that are dissimilar from otherstyles according to how use the word and grammar, how organize the text of newsand so on. On the other hand, from the analysis, the attitudes of CNN aboutChinese policy “one belt, one road” can be discovered and people are likely tohave an understanding of Americans’ viewpoints about “one belt, one road”.

From this analysis, at first, readers canknow some differences among English news style with other styles. The problemslike what makes English news concise, objective and meaningful will be answered.Though many paper in the areas of journalism and politics try to discover thatthe mainstream media of America make biased reports about china, comparing withanalysis of news report from the perspective of journalism and politics, thispaper give a specific reason how news report manifest its tendentiousness andobjection. Moreover, with understanding of other people’s attitudes to Chinesepolicy, Chinese government can find an appropriate way to cover news accordingto different reaction to one belt and one road. It’s beneficial for Chinese government totake steps of efficient propaganda for country.

2. 研究的基本内容与方案

Thispaper will focus on English news reports about one belt and one road covered byCNN and trys to explore American mainstream media’s attitudes to Chinese politicalpolicy and issues according the results of analysis. Inorder to get the result as accurate as possible, several pieces of news reports from CNN’s officialwebpage will be chosen, and the contents of these news reports are related toone belt and one road including the forum held in Beijing, the steps taken by Chinesegovernment and so on. After reading these reports carefully, the paper will analyzereporters how to construct the formation of news reports and how to use thewords and grammar. By concerning on text structure and language features inthese news reports, readers will find the characteristics of English news and themedia’s thoughts about this Chinese significant policy that if they are agreeable,disagreeable or neutral to it. According to American mainstream media’sattitudes, the directivity of ideology which is hided in reports and presentedby reporters’ writing skills may be found.

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