期刊刊名：人文暨社會科學期刊 　 卷期：5卷2期

篇名出版日期：2009年12月1日

作者：JIAN-SHIUNG SHIE,謝健雄

語言：English

關鍵字：news stories, the Times supplement, generic structure, the hook, the nut graph,報紙新聞,紐約時報精選周報,文類結構,誘導文,主題文

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摘要：
This paper explores organizational patterns of New York Times supplement news stories' opening paragraphs with reference to the hook and the nut graph to show genre-specific features. From the data for this study, six types of news story openings are extrapolated: the funnel opening, suspense opening, dialectic opening, delta opening, scene opening, and spiral opening. The results show that the hook and the nut graph are two key concepts in the generic structure of a Times supplement news story's opening paragraph(s). Taking into account these two important elements, this paper concludes that the generic structure of a Times supplement story includes the following two combinations of elements: (1) the lead (containing the foregrounded nut graph) + the body of the story, and (2) the hook (with the delayed nut graph in or below the hook) + the body of the story. But the second combination is far more common, accounting for approximately two-thirds of the data for the present study. This simple framework can help us approach the generic structure of English soft-news stories and assist Taiwanese EFL learners in their effort to comprehend Times supplement news stories.

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