| Author: | Yang, Yaxiong Sakura |
| Title: | A comparative analysis on evidentiality in English and Chinese journalistic texts |
| Degree: | M.A. |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Subject: | Evidentials (Linguistics) Chinese language -- Grammar. English language -- Grammar. Journalism -- Language. Hong Kong Polytechnic University -- Dissertations |
| Department: | Department of English |
| Pages: | 50 pages : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | Evidentiality, as a grammatical category is an indispensable part of all languages as it profoundly indicates the speaker's sources of information. In this thesis, 30 pieces of news are selected from The New York Times, and The People's Daily which are significant publications in the U.S.A and China (15 pieces for each, with 5 political news, 5 sports news and 5 business news) for the data of the comparative study on evidentiality. Through a contrastive analysis on the English and Chinese journalistic texts, we find that the average frequency of evidentials in English journalistic texts is higher than those in Chinese journalistic texts. Besides, hearsay evidentials are predominant in these five evidential types. In both English and Chinese business news, the frequency of hearsay evidentials is the highest. |
| Rights: | All rights reserved |
| Access: | restricted access |
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