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Stylistic Analysis of Newspaper Language:

The diffference between Newsday and The New York Times

            In order to investigate the style of prose in newspaper language, the analyst chose two American newspaper: Newsday and The New York Times. Different newspaper in the U.S. are said to have distinctively different styles of writing, for they aim at certain audience. And because there is a claim that The New York Times has a more authoritative way of writing and that Newsday is more informal, the analyst chose the two for the purpose of comparison. The article focused on Visual, Grammatical.

A. Graphic and Graphological Difference

            ● the larger the letter is, the more “eye-catching” effect it yields.

Newsday:       Headline:                    bold     13mm

                        Text:                                          3mm

Times:            Headline:                    italic   8mm

                        Text:                                        2mm

B. Sentence Analysis

                        u Classification according to sentence arrangement;

                        v Classification according to sentence type;

            Although the function of a newspaper, to report news, stays the same, their styles of language are very different. On a visual level, Newsday is easier for a reader to read than The New York Times because of the largeness of the words and wide columns. On the grammatical level, the style of The Times is more complex, more formal than Newsday. On the semantic level, the choice of words in The Times is more intellectual. Still, which newspaper is better to read is based on the subjective preference of the reader.