Abstract: At present Business English vocabulary research has just started in China and the related list has not been formed yet. This thesis, taking China Daily and The New York Times as the data sources, carries on the data analysis on the keywords of the two corpora. Results show that Chinese and American news media have significant differences in the use of business words regarding word length, word class and word formality. These differences can reveal the different attitude and the ideas behind the news media.

keywords: China Daily; The New York Times; business reports; keywords; corpus

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Abstract

摘要

1. Introduction-1

1.1 Background of this Research-1

1.2 Purpose and Significance of this Research-2

2. Research Design and Methodology-3

2.1 Corpus Description-3

2.2 Procedures of the Research Design-5

3. Analysis and Discussion-6

3.1 General Comparison of Keyword Length-7

3.2 Analysis of Key Nouns-8

   3.2.1 Nouns Referring to Place Names-10

   3.2.2 Nouns Referring to Companies-11

       3.2.3 The Use of Abstract Nouns -15

   3.3 Discussion-17

4. Conclusion-18

References-19