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