摘 要

随着全球化的推进，《中国日报》作为使用英语的中国官方媒体越来越受到世界关注。而新闻中对人物的刻画影响着世界对中国生活和社会的认知。因此，本文以《中国日报》（英文版）为研究对象，主要选取2017年2月至4月人物特写新闻进行研究，并选择来自西方主流媒体的，内容相近或题材相同的人物特写新闻进行对比分析。研究发现，《中国日报》中的人物特写有自己的独特的风格，它的人物特写延续着中国惯有的写作习惯，虽然语言转变，但仍然有许多中国特有的传统语言风格，并且新闻基调平稳，不带有个人色彩，但同时它在句式上也借鉴了西方的写作标准，是中外文化交流下的重要结合物。它既值得借鉴，也有需要改进的地方，需要我们继续对标准英语进行研究，学习和使用。

关键词：《中国日报》；人物特写；中国传统；英语写作；英语新闻

Abstract

With the advancement of globalization, China Daily, as the Chinese English language medium, has attracted more and more attention from the world. And the characterization and depiction of characters from news influence world’s cognition of Chinese life and society. This paper selects profile news released from February to April in 2017 in China Daily (English Edition) as its research materials, and it compares them with foreign news from western mainstream media which have similar contents or same theme, trying to analyze their differences and similarities. The study finds that profiles in China Daily has their unique styles. Its feature writing adopts some Chinese writing customs and retains many Chinese traditional styles, though it uses a different language. And tone is stable, without personal opinions. However, it also borrows writing standards from the west, becoming a very important combination of Chinese and western writing styles. The study finds the meaning to learn from it and things that need to be improved. Therefore, we shall continue to study standard English to perfect Chinese people’s English writing.

Key Words: China Daily; profile; Chinese tradition; English writing; English news

Contents

1 Introduction 1

2 Characteristics of Chinese and English Profiles 3

2.1 Introduction to Profiles 3

2.2 Characteristics of Chinese Profiles 4

2.3 Characteristics of English profiles 5

3 Characteristics of Profiles in China Daily 6

3.1 Preferences in the selection of figures 6

3.1.1 Celebrities 6

3.1.2 Distinctive normal people 7

3.1.3 Foreign people who work in China 8

3.2 Linguistic features 9

3.2.1 Title designing 9

3.2.2 Addressing 10

3.2.3 Syntactic features 10

3.3 Ways of narration 12

3.3.1 Conversations and Talks 13

3.3.2 Narrative Order 14

3.3.3 Features of illustrations 15

4 Conclusion 17

References 19

Acknowledgements 20

A Study of Profiles in China Daily

1 Introduction

With the development of globalization, English has increasingly become an important tool for communication and trade between countries. At present, foreign demand for understanding China's national conditions and life is also increasing. Under such condition, China officially issued China Daily in 1981, intending to let the world better understand China. As for characters, the main reported object, a more detailed description could lead a deeper understanding for readers. Therefore, we need to seriously study profile. People who use English as its target readers, take up the majority of the whole population. However, there are many differences between Chinese and English, and Chinese people always add their own Chinese thinking and language usage habits when learn and use English. As a result, present Chinese English is developed.

Nowadays, scholars' research on Chinese English has been deepened, but it is still lacking in the areas of the application of Chinese English in specific literature style. Profile as an important part of news writing, its research value is seen as large. In order not to only improve the application of English and know more about potential development space, but also to help Chinese people to better study English in the future, the author decided to deeply study profile in China Daily. This study can not only let us better understand Chinese English, find out existing problems, and explore ways for improvement, but also find some common ground between western and Chinese culture and play a positive role in promoting the integration of different cultures. More importantly, deeply studying its characteristics including language aspect, content aspect or other aspects allows us to better seize media language, better understand the differences between Chinese English and Standard English, as well as to improve and perfect our own English writing. Therefore, better Chinese English articles can be created.