1.1 Stylistics

Stylistics is a branch of linguistics. Style is in the specific communication and appears the means and ways of expression through the purposeful choice. It is formed in history and  the complete system has been accepted by the entire society. Stylistics is the science of studying these sciences.

In Roger Fowler Terminology Dictionary of Modern Western Literary Criticism (1987),“ the word ‘stylistic’ forms ‘style’, which is a branch of literary research. Some literary historians on the various factors in any language contains (such as metaphor, language structure, syntax) literature research methods are called ‘stylistic’. It is easy to cause language solutions because the stylistics has its own principles and methods. It is part of literary criticism history that can become an independent chapter.”文献综述

1.2 Register of Language

The so-called a register of language, is the people in various social activities, according to different objects and environment, the communication language used in a series of language features such as the vocabulary, sentence structure, rhetoric and so on. Register of language is pided into spoken and written styles, to spoken which include conversation style and colloquial speech, written language is pided into legal style, business style, scientific style, literary style, news style and network style. English sports news is combination with spoken and written styles, making sports news become more and more attractive.

2 Language Features in English Sports News

2.1 Vocabulary Characteristic来.自/优尔论|文-网www.youerw.com/

2.1.1 Words with a Large Number of Entertainment and Colloquialism

Most of younger people love sports, and they are the main group who buy sports newspapers and journals, for appeal to them, sports news words become more and more entertainment and colloquial. We take an example from one sports news: Manchester United beat Arsenal pants off in the first leg of European Cup. (曼联在第一回合欧洲杯的比赛中羞辱对手) “Beat the pants off ”is a oral expression, which means a big victory. Now, few of readers may pay attention to those difficult comments.