Analysis of Language Characteristics of Financial News from People’s Daily

Abstract

As the main means of transmitting financial information, financial news has been delivered to people daily with different carriers such as financial news websites, financial pages of major newspapers, and so on. Language is an important tool for newspapers to spread the news effectively. The use of language and its characters in newspapers of the party plays an exemplary and guiding role for the reader. For the deficiency that most studies focus on English financial reports, this study is carried out to investigate the characteristics of its language use in People’s Daily. The reasons for choosing topics, the current research status of economic news, and the language characteristics of economic news of People’s Daily are investigated by using the method of text analysis and the combination of description and interpretation. The characteristics of words, sentence patterns, and rhetorical devices are also explored.