The Research On Newspaper Narrative

News is a report on fact taking place recently, and it is a kind of typical narrative behavior in technical nature. Newspaper narrative is one kind of the media forms of news narrative. It takes the newspaper as a carrier to narrate news event, to propagate news information and to express media opinion. It reflects a dynamic process in which the news information is regarded as narrative content, transmitted from the narrator (reporter, editor and media) to the receiver (reader). This article took advantage of some relevant theory of western narrative, and used some scientific methods to research newspaper, such as symbol analyzing, discourse analyzing, etc. In this article, the author firstly introduced the evolutionary way from narrative to news narrative, then to newspaper narrative, and proved the subject of news narrative. The author thought that newspaper narrative could be divided into manuscript narrating and layout narrating. In the part of manuscript narrating, the author summed up a general way to make news text, that is, to build up the news schema through the macroscopic structure analyzing. According to the rank order of manuscript structure, the author pointed out the manuscript's evolutionary way from basic subject to macroscopic subject. The author also pointed out that there was always a news schema in the manuscript. In the news propagation, both reporters and readers used this schema unconsciously to produce news and to understand news. In the part of layout narrating, the author presented a new concept of layout narrating function, suggesting that we can arrange the elements and structure of newspaper layout reasonably and skillfully to increase the dynamic and successive effect of the layout, then to have the newspaper layout got narrative function and transformed from space art to time art. The author analyzed the elements and structure of the newspaper layout narrating, emphatically analyzed the layout narrating style and layout narrating frame, and showed the special function of news pictures in newspaper layout narrating. In the last part of the article, the author combed the developing track of the newspaper narrative, and pointed out that with the development of internet, the original forms and content of newspaper narrative had changed, the appearance of electronic newspaper narrative and the establishment of electronic newspaper database were inevitable developing tendency.