Advances in Journalism and Communication

Volume 10, Issue 1 (March 2022)

ISSN Print: 2328-4927   ISSN Online: 2328-4935

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Stance Taking in English and Chinese News Headlines

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DOI: 10.4236/ajc.2022.101004    248 Downloads   1,258 Views  
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This study conducts a small corpus-assisted investigation on the linguistic epistemic markers and attitudinal stance markers of English and Chinese news headlines and discusses the possible similarities and differences. Results show that in the Chinese news headlines, certainty stance markers and evidentiality markers are more frequent, whereas in the English news headlines, hedging stance markers and evaluation stance markers are more common. These differences may be due to the differences in English and Chinese news value and news writing modes.

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Shi, X. and Wei, L. (2022) Stance Taking in English and Chinese News Headlines. Advances in Journalism and Communication, 10, 40-52. doi: 10.4236/ajc.2022.101004.

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