An Analysis on Lexical Features of Sports News English.doc

An Analysis on Lexicon Features of Sports News English AbstractWith the booming of sports industry and the increasing of international sports exchanges, especially the holding of the Olympic Games, World Cup and World Championship and so on, more and more people begin to pay close attention to sports. Meanwhile, now many different kinds of Mass Medias, such as journal, magazine, newspaper, television and video, are engaged in the report of sports news and flower massive time to introduce the development of world sports. Based on this background, sports English arises. Sports English plays an important role on the international communication. Based on this background, this paper aims at making people get much knowledge about it trough analyzing the sports English from report news. Whats more, lexicon analyzing will make a great benefit to the English sports news translation.Thesis statement: It concludes the word formation of sports news English and analyses its features from the processing data of various report news. 1. Introduction1.1 Background of this research1.2 Significance of the research1.3 Sources of date1.3.1 Dates from Chinese Daily1.3.2 Dates from VOA and BBC1.3.3 Collected report samples from other websites2. Literature Review3. Theoretical Basis3.1 Definitions of Lexicon3.2 Word formation and word classification3.3 Features of Sports News English 4. Lexicon features of Sports News English4.1 Word formation of sports news English4.1.1 Abbreviation4.1.2 Affixation4.1.3 Conversion4.1.4 Compounding4.2 Lexicon features of sports News word4.2.1 Short words4.2.2 Frequent use of figurative words4.2.3 The use of loan-words4.2.4 The use of jargon4.2.5 Abundant of colloquial words5. Conclusion