TITLE:
Stance Taking in English and Chinese News Headlines
AUTHORS:
Xiuling Shi, Lifang Wei
KEYWORDS:
Stance Markers, News Headlines, English, Chinese
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Journalism and Communication,
Vol.10 No.1,
March
25,
2022
ABSTRACT: This
study conducts a small corpus-assisted investigation on the linguistic epistemic markers and
attitudinal stance markers of English and Chinese news headlines and discusses
the possible similarities and differences. Results show that in the Chinese
news headlines, certainty stance markers and evidentiality markers
are more frequent, whereas in the English news headlines, hedging stance markers and
evaluation stance markers are more common. These differences may be due to the differences in English and Chinese news value
and news writing modes.