TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION-1
1.1 General Description of the Study-1
1.2 The Purpose and Significance of the Study-2
1.3 Research Methods-2
2 LITERATURE REVIEW-4
2.1 Previous Studies Abroad and at Home-4
2.2.1 Studies abroad-4
2.1.2 Studies at home-5
2.2 Common Knowledge Related to News-6
2.3 Lexical Analysis as an Aspect of Stylistics Analysis-6
3 LEXICAL FEATURES OF ENGLISH ENTERTAINMENT NEWS-8
3.1 Spoken Words-8
3.2 Nonce Words-9
3.2.1 Affixation-10
3.2.2 Compounding-11
3.2.3 Conversion-12
3.3 Alien Words-12
3.4-Abbreviations-13
3.4.1. Clipped words-13
3.4.2 Initialisms and Acronyms-14
3.4.3 Blending-15
4 A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF VOCABULARY OF ENGLISH ENTERTAINMENT NEWS BERWEEN CHINA AND AMERICA-17
4.1Words of Top Frequency-17
4.2 Word Length-18
4.3 Personal Pronouns-19
4.4 Fuzzy Terms-21
5 CONCLUSION-22
REFERENCES-23
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS-23
