Part One:Characteristics of Newspaper English 1
Chapter One The Headlines 1
Chapter Two News Agencies,Dateline and Lead 7
Chapter Three Abbreviations,Clippings and Blend Words 10
Chapter Four Special Expressions 16
Chapter Five Neologism or Coined Words 21
Chapter Six Grammatical Characteristics 29
Chapter Seven Romanization:Transliteration 40
Part Two:Characteristics of Newsmagazine English 49
Chapter Eight Three Newsmagazines:Time,Newsweek,and U.S.News World Report 49
Chapter Nine Classical Expressions 57
Chapter Ten Foreign Words 71
Chapter Eleven Structural Features 77
Chapter Twelve Compound Words 83
Chapter Thirteen Verb-and-Noun Combination 96
Chapter Fourteen Metaphors in the Newsmagazines 101
Chapter Fifteen Advertising English 108
Conclusion 117
Pat Three:Appendix 120
Supplementary 120
A List of Hyphenated Words or-Phrases in Alphabetical Order 122
More Special Expressions 150
American Idioms Commonly Found in the Newsmagazines 179