新闻标题特点3：缩写词.ppt

Headlines There are some important features of headlines in lexis, grammar and rhetoric. 1. Abbreviation 缩写词 A. acronym: [ ‘?kr?nim ]? n. ? a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name 缩写字,字头语, 例如, WTO=World Trade Organization世界贸易组织; UN=United Nations 联合国 缩写词又称首字母缩略词 (initial)，将几个词的首字母加在一起合成一字，全部用大写字母拼成，从而代替一组冗长复杂的词或词组。这样，既可节省版面标题词数，又能更好地提示新闻内容，使人读来颇感简洁易记，还可使版面编排减少沉闷之感。 1.2 例如： 1) CPPCC head meets returned overseas students in Beijing. (CPPCC＝The Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference 中国人民政治协商会议) 全国政协主席在京接见归国留学生 2) AIDS victims surging in US (AIDS＝acquired immune deficiency syndrome：后天免疫缺损综合症，即“艾滋病”) 美“艾滋病”患者激增 1. 3. FDA OKs drug that fights HIV in new way (CNN) -- The Food and Drug Administration(食品及药物管理局)on Friday approved the first of a new class of HIV(=human immunodeficiency [ .imjun?udifi??nsi ] virus人体免疫缺损病毒，艾滋病病毒 ) drugs that attacks the virus in a different way. **Australian PM, an Iraq war ally, calls elections Oct. 14, 2007 (伊战盟友---澳总理宣告大选) CANBERRA, Australia - Prime Minister John Howard on Sunday called general elections for Nov. 24 that will decide who will shepherd (领导,指导 ) Australias economic boom and whether the country will start pulling troops out of Iraq. 1.4. FBI quizzes survivors of Blackwater shooting (=Federal Bureau of Investigation 联邦调查局)联邦调查局询问黑水枪击安幸存者 ---From Jomana Karadsheh October 13, 2007BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Survivors of a September 16 incident in which the Iraqi government accuses Blackwater USA security guards of fatally shooting 17 Iraqi civilians without provocation(挑拨) have told FBI investigators harrowing (悲痛的,难受的) stories of their ordeals(痛苦的经验) . 2. Three categories of acronym 英语新闻标题中经常出现的缩写词主要分为三类： 2.1) Proper names for Oraganizations 组织机构等专有名称，如上述例句中的CPPCC (全国政协)。如： UNESCO＝United Nations Educational， Scientific and Cultural Organization (联合国教科文组织) 2. IMF＝International Monetary Fund国际货币基金组织 ASEAN＝Association of Southeast