Genre Analysis Of The News-in-brief In English Newspapers

News-in-brief as a genre is a very popular form to report news events in English newspapers with its own functions and features of writing and context. The current research paper makes a tentative endeavor to apply the systemic functional model for genre analysis for a comprehensive survey of news-in-brief in English newspapers. In systemic functional linguistics, genre theory is a theory of how we use language to live; it tries to describe the ways in which we organize language - how we might do things with language. It is a theory about our familiarity with what to expect in certain situations. The basis of systemic functional linguistics is a very strong notion of "function". The general approach of the functionalists' study of language is one that focuses on "the social functions that determine what language is like and how it has evolved". All language performs simultaneously three metafunctions: ideational, interpersonal and textual. This research paper includes three aspects. The first is to find the generic qualities (generic structure and generic features of lexicogrammar: transitivity, mood, modality and theme type) of news-in-brief in English newspapers. The second is to -investigate how the linguistic realizations of a text enact purpose and function of news-in-brief in English print-media news settings or how genre conditions and influences the linguistic realizations of news-in-brief. The third one is to incorporate the result of the study into the language learning classroom to improve students' genre acquisition ability and benefit those students who are learning to write English news articles and to read English newspapers.