【作者】 陈小龙；

【导师】 高玉芬；

【作者基本信息】 大连海事大学 ， 外国语言学及应用语言学， 2004， 硕士

【摘要】 一篇评论是在新闻报纸中编辑或发行者对某一次的特定新闻所发表的评论人对新闻时事的观点，一篇好的评论文章在所有国家都被认为是议论文中最好的典型的范例，而且，中国日报的评论最开始是由中国作者所写，因此，它为文章结构和文化分析提供了一个非常好的范例。 本篇论文通过中国日报和泰晤士报的五篇评论，从修辞角度对英语和汉语的写作风格进行分析，从语篇的微观结构分析，中国日报比泰晤士报使用更多的段落和简单重复，从宏观结构分析，汉语传统的修辞结构，即所谓的四段式，通过在中国日报中的分析，得出并非完全象以前的研究者所得出的结论，从中国日报和泰晤士报的不同之处得出结论，中国日报的语言英语语法上是一致的，但在被普遍接受的英语语篇层面上又有所区别，同时也显露出大多数中国学生在英语写作上没有给予完全正确的引导． 总体来说，当中国学生在写英语文章时，缺乏英语的思维方式，他们习惯于把汉语的思维方式翻译成英语，这就是他们在英语写作中不能够恰当运用英语习语的基本原因． 本篇论文指出，英语国家的会话者和中国的英语教师，当他们在汉语语境中教授英语时，应该充分熟悉掌握汉语写作的语篇结构。更多还原

【Abstract】 An editorial is defined as an article in a newspaper, which gives the opinion of the editor or publisher on a topic or item of news. Good editorials are considered some of the best examples of persuasive writing in all countries; they set standards for written persuasion. Furthermore, since China Daily Editorials are written into English from the original Chinese writers, they provide good examples for textual and cultural analysis.In this paper, five editorials in the China Daily are analyzed from rhetorical differences between English and Chinese writing. Data collection and research methods are explained and analyzed in terms of register and genre in comparison with The Times, a British newspaper. This is followed by discussion based on the data analyzed from functional points of view.The results of the study indicated that there are significant differences between the editorials of the two newspapers. Regarding textual micro-patterns, there are more paragraphs and more instances of simple repetition in China Daily than in The Times. As to textual macro-patterns, Chinese traditional rhetorical pattern called qi-cheng-jun-he is observed in China Daily, though not so explicitly as has been asserted by preceding researchers. It can be concluded from these differences that the language in China Daily is correct in grammar, but deviates from what is accepted as natural discourse in the West. It is also revealed that most Chinese learners are not given proper instruction in writing.In a word, Chinese students lack the ability of thinking in English thought pattern when they write English compositions, and they are accustomed to translate what they have thought in Chinese in their mind into English. This is the basic cause for unidiomatic writings.This research implies that native speakers of English as well as Chinese teachers of English should be well aware of the discourse structure of Chinese writing when they teach English as a foreign language in a Chinese setting.更多还原