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BBC Learning English The English We Speak 3rd May 2011 -gate The English We Speak © British Broadcasting Corporation 2011 Page 1 of 2

William: Hello, I'm William Kremer and this is The English We Speak. Wang Fei: Hi there. I'm Wang Fei. William: So, Wang Fei, today is 3 May. Wang Fei: Yes. William: Do you know what 3 May is? Wang Fei: Hmm… a Tuesday? William: Yes, it's a Tuesday, but it's not just any Tuesday. Today is World Press Freedom Day. This is the day that the United Nations has chosen to highlight the importance of a free press around the world. Wang Fei: A free press. So, newspapers that are free to write anything they think the public need to know and TV news that can report anything? William: Yes they can report anything, including things that look bad for the government! Scandals. Wang Fei: A scandal, so something very bad that damages someone's reputation. William: Exactly. And one of the most famous scandals from American history is the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s. Wang Fei: Watergate… that was why President Nixon had to resign wasn't it? William: Exactly, yes, because he was shown to have lied to the American people and basically obstructed the course of justice. The whole thing started when five men were arrested for breaking into an office block called Watergate. This was where the Democratic Party had their headquarters. Later on, the men were linked to the campaign to re-elect President Nixon, who was in the Republican Party. Wang Fei: Well, this is very interesting but what has it got to do with The English We Speak, William? The English We Speak © British Broadcasting Corporation 2011 Page 2 of 2 William: Well, because Watergate was such a massive scandal, Wang Fei, the word -gate is now sometimes used as a suffix to suggest that something is a scandal. So, to give you an example from last year, when Gordon Brown was trying to get re-elected as British Prime Minister, he was overheard calling an old lady a "bigot" – a very strong word for somebody who is intolerant and close-minded. Anyway, this was a big scandal and it came to be known in the media as 'bigotgate'. Wang Fei: Bigotgate. That sounds almost a little bit funny. William: Yes, you're right. I think using -gate on the end of a word can make it seem a little humorous. This term -gate is used more in the USA, but another recent example from the UK is 'Climategate' – that was when some emails and other documents from a university in England led to people asking questions about the way that scientists researched climate change. Climategate. Wang Fei: So, can we use –gate in normal English conversation too? William: Yes, you can – if you want to make a joke. Listen to this: Man A: Have you seen Mark recently? Man B: Mark – he hasn't spoken to me since beergate! Man A: Beergate? What do you mean? Man B: We had a big argument because I said Mark never bought a round of beer in the pub! He got very upset and went home. Wang Fei: So in that example, the speaker coined the word beergate to describe an argument about paying for beer! William: Yeah, which is obviously very silly. But of course, this suffix -gate is used in very serious situations too. And it was thanks to members of the free press, including the Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, that the public came to know about Watergate. Wang Fei: Yes. Check our website this week for more information and learning English programmes about World Press Freedom Day. Goodbye. William: Bye!

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基于语料库的BBC英语广播新闻报道文体分析

作者：胡勍

来源：《青年文学家》2013年第33期

摘 要：本文选取了BBC英语新闻广播听力文本，以语料库为基本的研究方法，以数据统计为支持，从词汇特征、句法特征，修辞三方面对BBC英语广播新闻报道的文体特征进行了分析。

关键词：基于语料库；文体分析；BBC英语广播新闻报道

作者简介：胡勍，西安外国语大学外国语言学及应用语言学专业硕士研究生，研究方向：商务英语。

[中图分类号]：H31 [文献标识码]：A

[文章编号]：1002-2139（2013）-33--01

一、引言

近些年来，有许多关于英语新闻报道的语言学研究。以往，对于书面新闻报道例如报纸为语料的语言学研究较多，但是基于语料库的广播新闻报道的文本特征进行定量的研究很少。广播新闻报道以电子媒介为传播途径，其语言风格也必然受到影响，形成一定的文体特色。本文以下载的43篇BBC新闻报道英语为语料，自建小型语料库，把定量统计引入语言研究，结合韩里德的功能语法，从词汇，句法，篇章三个层面上揭示了BBC英语新闻报道的文体特征。

二、语料的选取及研究方法

依据的语料来源于BBC官网http：///news/，共下载43篇BBC的最新英语新闻报道，主要是从2012年4月到2012年5月底有关政治、经济、文化等各个方面的新闻报道。本文运用统计检索工具（Antconc）， 通过对所生成词表的分析和频率统计以及对语料库的句法结构分析，总结出了BBC英语新闻报道的文体特征。

三、语料的分析与讨论

（一）词汇层面分析

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功能文体学的创始人韩礼德认为，语言是社会符号，语篇受制于情景语境。情景语境有三个主要成分：语场、语旨和语式。语场指语言发生的环境，包括谈话话题（topic）、讲话者及其他参加者所参加的整个活动；语旨指语言交际者之间的角色关系与交际目的；语式指交际的渠道或媒介，如口语或书面语。

When will Chinese TV dramas play their part?

By Bi Yantao ( )Updated: 2016-04-05 10:29:10

While Chinese people have started recognizing the value of soft power in

expanding national interests, our neighbor to east, South Korea, has been using its TV

plays to further its image for quite some time now.

With the Descendants of the Sun, a new South Korean series on KBS2, being a

big hit with TV viewers on the Chinese mainland, people cannot but ask: Why cannot

China, a country with a much larger audience, make such popular TV dramas? What's

wrong with China's film and television plays and directors?

Some people attribute the popularity of South Korean TV series to their

love-oriented stories, overflowing aestheticism, and romantic, sympathetic and

suspenseful scenarios that seem to fit in with young women's fantasies. The pleasing

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