【正文】 畢業(yè)論文(設(shè)計(jì))The Influences of Culture on Chinese and English Headlines1. Introduction 12. Definition of headline 23. Linguistic features of headlines 3 Usage of notional words in headlines 4 Omission of function words in headlines 5 Usage of proverbs and idioms in headlines 64. The parison of Chinese and English headlines on cultural differences 7 The development of headline 7 The development of Chinese headlines 8 The development of English headlines 8 Characters of Chinese and English affect headlines 9 Politics and headlines 10 Social value and headlines 13 Social ideology affects headlines 13 Orientation of worship effects headlines 14 Thinking modes and headlines 15 Religion and headlines 175. Conclusion 18References 201. IntroductionWith the development of modern technology, all messages and new things are represented in mass media and one of the traditional media for transmitting is newspaper. Newspaper is being more and more indispensable to people’s life. It is a vital means for people to know the world。 it reports the latest events at home and abroad. As the “eyes” and “windows” of news, headlines have received people’s attention all the time, because they play an important part in news report and draw readers’ attention first. A good headline not only adds the finishing touch to a piece of news, but also can touch the hearts of readers and attract readers。 what’s more headlines can guide readers to get more information.People know that a good headline has almost spoken out the event. That is to say, a headline is a piece of news. Thus, it is selfevident that headlines are very important for news report. Many scholars have done researches on news headlines, such as English news headlines, Chinese news headlines, the translation of headlines, etc. However, most of the researches are from the perspectives of stylistic features of Chinese and English headlines and few of them concern the perspective of cultural differences. Therefore, this paper begins with the definition and linguistic features of the headlines, then turns to discuss the effect of cultural differences in politics, ideology, belief and ways of thinking on English and Chinese headlines, helping readers to understand their cultural differences and improving readers’ reading ability to decode headlines of newspaper. 2. Definition of headlineThe peculiarity of headlines has drawn a good deal of attention, both journalistic and linguistic. Simple as it seems to be, it is a form of expression having many standards to be met and requirements to be fulfilled so that the headline writer is in fact engaged in producing a literary art. It requires a good mastery of the language used as well as many skills. Thus a parison of headlines between two different languages is actually the parison between two different cultures. Before paring Chinese and English headlines, it is necessary to give a clear definition of headline. After consulting definitions given by scholars both at home and abroad, it is easy to see that their definitions share some mon elements as follows:A. “Headline” is a jargon of the newspaper；B. A headline summaries or makes ments on the news contents that follow.Once more, on the basis of the definitions provided, a working definition of headline, which is applicable to both English and Chinese, can be given as follows:A headline is a line or lines of concise words outside a newspaper story or article, which is usually printed in large amount or with different types and devised to summarize or make ments on its contents.3. Linguistic features of headlinesHeadline is, in a sense, an advertisement for the story. A good headline will reach out and grab readers. When it is bright, informative, clear and accurate, its readers can be hooked. They read on, and that’s the whole object. Writing good headlines is almost an art. It is also one of the most difficult and demanding parts of a writer’s job. If a reporter said in thirty words or less a headline writer might have to say in six words or less. Good headline writing is an art practiced under the pressure of deadlines. So every headline writer will follow some general principles techniques to practice. In the following part, three typical lexical features of headlines writing both in Chinese and English will be discussed, helping readers to catch information more easily. Usage of notional words in headlinesVocabulary is the building materials of language, so it plays an important role in language。 it is quite necessary to have some knowledge about it. Headline without correct usage of vocabulary may sometimes bring a hard time to the readers.In English news, headlines often contain noun phrases with no verbs. A noun phrase describes a noun。 another mon headline form is a string of three, four or more nouns together. These can be difficult because the words do not e together with verbs or adjectives. Sometimes, these take places of other adjective, participle or subordinate clauses. Here are some examples of using a noun or noun phrase headlines:(1) Petrol price fears (The Times, Oct 21, 2001)(2) Best High Schools Spring Update (The US News, May 16, 2008)(3) .39。s Salvation Army offers poverty simulation (Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2008)In the case of noun strings, it39。s helpful to try to connect the ideas by reading backwards. For example: in “Mustang Referral Customer Complaint”, by reading backwards, people can guess that: