Vagueness is a natural character of language. Vagueness of journalistic English exists in lexical level and syntactic level as well. Lexical vagueness in journalistic English is usually resulted from the indefinite meaning of words, while in syntactic level, it may be resulted from the combined use of vague words or the employment of some sentence patterns. This thesis aims to help readers to understand journalistic English from the perspective of vague language.
Newspaper is, to some extent, a mirror of our society, reflecting the latest change and development of the society.News text is a linguistic representation of the world. This paper is to briefly introduce the structure, writing and linguistic styles of news texts and thus to increase readers' awareness of the distinctive features of news texts.
