Stylistic Features on Agriculture Reports of VOA Learning English

Abstract

This paper, based on modern stylistic theories, aims at studying the stylistic features of agriculture reports abstracted from the official website-https://www.chinavoa.com/ OVA learning English. With combination of the quantitative and qualitative analytical research methodologies, the levels of lexicon and syntax or the texts are studied respectively. The analysis presents words which are relevant to agriculture and different numbers with the units of measurement are frequently presented in the reports. While on the grammatical level, present tense and active voice are two typical usages. Moreover, passive voice, perfect aspect, and modality are also distributed. In the application of modality, the words with the meaning of permission, possibility, ability is frequently adopted. The results of this study pave the way to English learners and agriculture researchers' writing reports.