A Study Of News Review In Henan Daily

In China,news review is a special style that integrates both narration and argumentation.It dates back to as early as Tang and Song dynasties and formed and developed as a formal style in the early 20 th century.It has been a controversy in the news industry as to what genre the news review falls into.To be more specific,the question is — is the news review the news report,news commentary,or a hybrid between the two? The essence of the question lies in different viewpoints and handling methods of the facts and opinions.In the news review,narration serves as the basis while the argumentation is the core.So,the paper is categorizing the news review into the scope of news commentary.Today's China is standing at a critical period of transformation.To ensure the healthy and stable development of the country and to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation require a proper social environment of public opinions.The advancement of the Internet has accelerated the rise of multiple emerging dissemination methods,and the mainstream media represented by Chinese Communist Party(CPC)'s media are facing impact and challenges regarding the information dissemination and public opinion guidance.In view of this,CPC's media at all levels shall take the initiative,innovate when opportunities arise,exert its advantages,and consolidate and expand its front of mainstream public opinions.News review integrates the strengths of both narration and argumentation and makes them as one.It has become a critical form of public opinion guidance under the Internet society context during the transformational period of the society,showing exceptional prospects of development.As a provincial CPC newspaper,Henan Daily gives a full play to its advantages and adheres to the “content-oriented” media transition principle.Facing with the tremendous changes in today's social and media environment,it actively tries the new methods,and has selected the news review series with a high stance and of the quality content as the essential part of the themed promotion for the 19 th National Congress of CPC.The news review has triggered a robust response from all walks of life,substantially improved the guidance power of CPC newspapers,and was a useful attempt of “telling Henan stories and singing Henan voices in a competent way”.The paper is a case study of the large-scale review series titled “Keep in mind the entrust,Make colorful Central Plains”,and conducts an in-depth analysis and summarization of its discourse features from the perspectives of texts and contexts with the help of Teun A.van Dijk's news discourse analysis theories.Analyzed from the text perspective,the news series mainly adopted the reverse-pyramid and circular permutation as its basic organizational structure.It highlights the theme and major events and has a complete structure scope of news schema.Every 10 reviews surrounded one lead and followed the major logic of “1+8+1”,with every review having its own independent logic.In terms of lexicon,the news review series adopted both written and oral vocabulary,used the third-person pronouns to highlight the touch of objectiveness,employed “collective vocabulary” to reflect the intense public sense,and applied headline vocabulary to highlight the theme.On the syntactic level,the reviews mainly used the declarative sentences to manifest the objectiveness,imperative sentences to clearly state the opinions,and end a paragraph with the exclamatory sentence to emphasize the intense emotions.Additionally,it employed many rhetorical methods such as parallelism and metaphor to make the articles vivid,intriguing,and highly readable.The news facts are specifically elaborated to give readers an on-site experience,many references are added to enhance the objectivity,the precise data are employed to increase authenticity,“poem-like” language is used to improve the appeal,and logical thinking is used to increase the depth.The review series of Henan Daily also prevail considering the context of the reviews.It followed closely the progress of the time,and promoted the news review series on the eve of the commencement of the 19 th national congress of CPC.It is deeply rooted in the actual situation of Henan province,timely analyzes the current trend,unveils the law and nature of development,and indicate the direction of improvement.In the news review series,different discourse subjects were employed to exhibit the opinions and stance,showing heights,depth,and a down-to-earth spirit.A strong sense of social acknowledgment and discourse expression of the family and the country sharing the similar structure have been conveyed across the lines of news review series,which reflect a strong collective awareness that helps to enhance the national cohesion and unity around the core.The textual and contextual features of the news review series provide relevant experience and the reference value for the discourse practice of the large-scale themed news.Today,it has become a top priority in the work of public opinions guidance by the news to improve the guiding power of public opinions in the mainstream media,and it is the duty and mission of the CPC media of all levels to accelerate the transformation of media and seek active innovations.