英语专业硕士毕业答辩陈词

Good morning, distinguished professors and teachers, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for attending the oral defense. First and formost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Professor Wu Wei, for her intellectual guidance, invaluable instructions and comments on my thesis. It is with her valuable assistance that I have finally accomplished this thesis.

The title of my paper is The Linguistic Analysis on The Discourse of English Broadcast News. I choose this as my topic due to the following reasons. Firstly, news has become one of the main recourse to get information. Secondly, study news can help us better understand culture. Last but not the least, being a reporter was one of my dreams, though it will no longer come true, I still hope I can do some devotion in the study of the analysis on news discourse to provide some helpful principles for news reports. Next, I will present it to you. Here is an outline of my presentation. This paper consists of seven parts.

Part one presents an introduction to the whole thesis by pointing out the purpose and significance of this study. The purpose in this thesis is to conduct a comprehensive and systematic comparison and analysis of features of the discourse of English broadcast news. The significance of this thesis is to indicate similarities and differences between Chinese and

English broadcast news in terms of transitivity and modeling of Hall iday’s Systemic Functional Grammar. And to explain the different functional results between Chinese and English news reports.It is hoped that the study will not only enable students to overcome their difficulties in listening English news reports, to increase their understanding of English news reports, to raise their interests of learning English, but also provide the news reporting criterion to the journalists and reporters, especially to those who are working for international news agencies.

Part two is literature review which introduces the relevant research about discourse analysis at home and abroad and then points out the theoretical basis and methods. In this chapter, the author introduces the origin of discourse analysis, and some very helpful theories in analyzing news discourse. In this part, it overviews some common knowledge related to news, including definitions of news, the characteristics of news, and the inclusion relationship between discourse and news discourse.

Part three gives a detailed introduction to lexical analysis on the discourse of broadcast news and explains the lexical characteristics of English broadcast news. In Chapter 3, the author introduces lexical density, which is a kind of mathematical method to measure how much meaningful information is included in news report. And in lexical analysis on the