TheInfluencesofCultureonChineseandEnglishHeadlines

毕业论文（设计）headlines can guide readers to get more information.People know that a good headline has almost spoken out the event.That is to say,a headline is a piece of news.Thus,it is self-evident that headlines are very importantfor news report.Many scholars have done researches on news headlines,such asEnglish news headlines,Chinese news headlines,the translation of headlines,etc.However,most of the researches are from the perspectives of stylistic features ofChinese and English headlines and few of them concern the perspective of culturaldifferences.Therefore,this paper begins with the definition and linguistic features ofthe headlines,then turns to discuss the effect of cultural differences in politics,ideology,belief and ways of thinking on English and Chinese headlines,helpingreaders to understand their cultural differences and improving readers'reading abilityto decode headlines of newspaper.2.Definition of headlineThe peculiarity of headlines has drawn a good deal of attention,both journalisticand linguistic.Simple as it seems to be,it is a form of expression having manystandards to be met and requirements to be fulfilled so that the headline writer is infact engaged in producing a literary art.It requires a good mastery of the languageused as well as many skills.Thus a comparison of headlines between two differentlanguages is actually the comparison between two different cultures.Beforecomparing Chinese and English headlines,it is necessary to give a clear definition of2