.2 Natures of News English
To figure out the natures of news English, it is necessary to know the natures of news. According to Zheng Baowei(2003), news has the following distinctive natures:
News must be new. It is said that the word “news” comes the word “new”. News is a kind of information conveyed to the people, but it is not the common information; instead it is about the things in its newest state. In other words, only those new things, new problems, new people, new ideas, and new experiences can become news. That news must be new is a fundamental feature of news, which differentiates news from history.
News must be timely. If the true and new facts were not released timely, news would become old and valueless. Therefore, the mass media must disclose the facts to the masses as soon as possible. Any delay or postpone should be avoided.
News must be made known to the public, in another way, it must be simple. In the modern society, the news media are the most important and most-frequently-used channel for people to get to know the outside world. Everyday newspapers, radio broadcasts and TV continuously release a large amount of news, and all the news is open to the public. It is obvious to see that everyone has access to the news, regardless of his intelligence and social status.
From the natures of news mentioned above, it is not difficult for us to understand the features of news English. On the one hand, lexically speaking, the words of news English are relatively short and simple which is easy to read, to understand as well as to write. This lexical characteristic answers the request of the nature that news can be accessible to everyone, regardless of wherever one comes or whatever one does. On the other hand, the grammars of news English are simple too which shows the simplicity of news. The frequent use of short and simple sentences, pre-modifications, active voice etc proves this point as well. Simple words and grammar help to release news timely to ensure the new nature of news. As what has been mentioned above, simplicity, one of the most important features of news English will be studied in this paper.
III. The Necessity of Simplicity of News English新闻英语的简单的必要性
News become more and more important in modern society, and it is even said that news is the center for the understanding of the international current events. Because of globalization, there is an increasingly strong desire from every corner of the world to learn about what is going on in the world. However, millions of pieces of news, from all over the world, happen everyday, and they are written in all kinds of languages. Then, how can people understand all these languages? Thus, English, as an international language, is used as a translator of all languages to give news readers a way to know about global news. In this situation, news English has to be simple so that it can benefit all kinds of people, for instance, news readers and reporters and even publishers.
3.1 Readers' Requirement
Everyday sees hundreds of thousands of pieces of news printed in newspapers. One can not read all of them and it is unnecessary. Pe
