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【Abstract】： News is thought as an essential style of English and attracts linguists. By analyzing English news with theory of stylistics， this paper aims to reveal its stylistic features and promote better knowing of news discourse.
【Key words】： stylistics; news discourse; English
Introduction
In content， news can be events happen in any fields （Liu &Zhu， 2006）. In nature， it’s text， so discourse analysis can be used on news. In this paper， the text Mood swings is a piece of news from The Economist. Contextual factors， lexical， and syntactic levels will be covered， directing toward to reveal the distinctive stylistic features of this text.
1. Contextual Analysis
Contexts should be thought as extra-linguistic factors in stylistic analysis. The theory was firstly proposed Malinowski and was put forward by Firth （Hu &Liu， 2004）.
1.1 Context of Culture
Mood swings is a news report covering act of global financial market in September， 2011. Hereby the context of culture is global financial crisis and public concern on economy.
1.2 Context of Situation
Context of situation refers to particular settings of discourse. It can be divided into three： field， tenor and mode （Halliday， 1985）. Field concerns the topic， subject matter and communicative activities. In the text， Euro debt crisis and Stock market is field. Tenor is addressee relation. Here， tenor is reporter and reader， their social distance is max. Mode refers to the channel or medium. This news is sent in medium of written language.
2. Discoursal Analysis
As the most important texture in English， cohesive devices will be analyzed. Altogether reference and conjunction will be analyzed too.
2.1 Cohesion
Cohesion is a non-structural texture reflects the sentence unit. It can be divided into implicit cohesion and explicit cohesion. Since implicit cohesion is clearly seen in context， this text mainly indicates explicit cohesion.
2.2 Reference
Reference can be divided into three types—personal， demonstrative， and comparative. Demonstrative reference like this， these， that are frequently used. Comparative reference like same， similar， different， identical， equal， etc. are used.
2.3 Conjunction
As a cohesive device， conjunction can reflect the logical relationship of sentence. Examples can be seen in this text：
E.g. （1） Other favorites in “risk on” markets are industrial commodities like oil and copper and the currencies of commodity producers such as Canada and Australia.
Typical conjunction word like “and” is frequently used in the text. Others like “but” “until recently”，” when” are also very common.
3. Summary
Through the comprehensive analysis， many distinctive stylistic features of English journalistic discourse have been disclosed from global and local perspectives in this paper. Specifically， this paper mainly covers extra-linguistic factors， global structures and local analysis from four different levels. Through the analysis of this journalistic discourse， we can know more about the stylistic features the news discourse and comprehend the news better.
Reference
1. Halliday， M. A. K. 1985. An Intriduction to Functional Grammar. [M] London： Edward Arnold： 12
2. 劉世生 朱瑞青. 文體学概论 [M]. 北京：北京大学出版社，2006：213
【Key words】： stylistics; news discourse; English
Introduction
In content， news can be events happen in any fields （Liu &Zhu， 2006）. In nature， it’s text， so discourse analysis can be used on news. In this paper， the text Mood swings is a piece of news from The Economist. Contextual factors， lexical， and syntactic levels will be covered， directing toward to reveal the distinctive stylistic features of this text.
1. Contextual Analysis
Contexts should be thought as extra-linguistic factors in stylistic analysis. The theory was firstly proposed Malinowski and was put forward by Firth （Hu &Liu， 2004）.
1.1 Context of Culture
Mood swings is a news report covering act of global financial market in September， 2011. Hereby the context of culture is global financial crisis and public concern on economy.
1.2 Context of Situation
Context of situation refers to particular settings of discourse. It can be divided into three： field， tenor and mode （Halliday， 1985）. Field concerns the topic， subject matter and communicative activities. In the text， Euro debt crisis and Stock market is field. Tenor is addressee relation. Here， tenor is reporter and reader， their social distance is max. Mode refers to the channel or medium. This news is sent in medium of written language.
2. Discoursal Analysis
As the most important texture in English， cohesive devices will be analyzed. Altogether reference and conjunction will be analyzed too.
2.1 Cohesion
Cohesion is a non-structural texture reflects the sentence unit. It can be divided into implicit cohesion and explicit cohesion. Since implicit cohesion is clearly seen in context， this text mainly indicates explicit cohesion.
2.2 Reference
Reference can be divided into three types—personal， demonstrative， and comparative. Demonstrative reference like this， these， that are frequently used. Comparative reference like same， similar， different， identical， equal， etc. are used.
2.3 Conjunction
As a cohesive device， conjunction can reflect the logical relationship of sentence. Examples can be seen in this text：
E.g. （1） Other favorites in “risk on” markets are industrial commodities like oil and copper and the currencies of commodity producers such as Canada and Australia.
Typical conjunction word like “and” is frequently used in the text. Others like “but” “until recently”，” when” are also very common.
3. Summary
Through the comprehensive analysis， many distinctive stylistic features of English journalistic discourse have been disclosed from global and local perspectives in this paper. Specifically， this paper mainly covers extra-linguistic factors， global structures and local analysis from four different levels. Through the analysis of this journalistic discourse， we can know more about the stylistic features the news discourse and comprehend the news better.
Reference
1. Halliday， M. A. K. 1985. An Intriduction to Functional Grammar. [M] London： Edward Arnold： 12
2. 劉世生 朱瑞青. 文體学概论 [M]. 北京：北京大学出版社，2006：213