期刊刊名：明道學術論壇 　 卷期：8卷1期

篇名出版日期：2012年3月1日

作者：林秉宥,Lin, Pingyou

語言：English

關鍵字：news lead, TSA (Topical Structure Analysis), Philippine english, Taiwanese english,新聞導言,主題結構分析,菲律賓英語,台灣英語

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摘要：
Newspapers supply one of the most effective ways to acquire the world information; therefore, in ESL/EFL college curriculums, journalist writing has become a popular subject. One assumption is that English newspapers published in outer circle English context might be different from those in inner circle; likewise, those published in expanding circle might be different from those in outer circle. In this paper, Lautamatti’s (1987) TSA (Topical Structure Analysis) framework of the three basic sentence elements and its combinations are used for analysis. The three elements include initial sentence element (ISE), grammatical subject (mood subject) and topical subject (discourse topic). The results indicate that the Philippine news leads and the Taiwanese news leads are identical in many ways. In physical characteristics, both leads have similar average words per one lead. Furthermore, each lead typically is composed of one sentence and the average words per sentence thus are similar too. In internal structures, topic subject has a higher frequency occurring in the non-initial position throughout the two languages. Needless to say, the passive voice whose “topic subject” appears initially would be less preferable. Among the constructions of non-initial topic subject, source type of ISE is used more frequently than information type of ISE in both news leads. One plausible interpretation for the similarities of English newspapers published in the expanding circle (Taiwanese English) and the outer circle (Philippine English) is that newspaper genres in these areas might be integrated in the international journalism community; therefore, there might have little differences between them.

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