Stance Taking in English and Chinese News Headlines - Advances in Journalism and Communication

AJC > Vol.10 No.1, March 2022

Advances in Journalism and Communication

Volume 10, Issue 1 (March 2022)

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

Google-based Impact Factor: 1.67 Citations

Stance Taking in English and Chinese News Headlines ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ajc.2022.101004 458 Downloads 2,161 Views Citations

Author(s)

Xiuling Shi¹, Lifang Wei^2*

Affiliation(s)

¹College of English, Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages, Shaoxing, China.
²School of Foreign Languages, Shaoxing University, Shaoxing, China.

ABSTRACT

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.

KEYWORDS

Stance Markers, News Headlines, English, Chinese

Share and Cite:

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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