本文以系统功能语言学三大纯理功能中的经验功能为理论基础,选取2004年12月至2005年1月期间中美英文报纸关于同一重大国际事件的新闻报道为研究对象,旨在对比分析两类报纸标题和导语的语言选择并探讨语境因素的影响,进一步证明系统功能语言学“选择就是意义”的观点,并验证将经验功能理论应用于新闻语篇分析的适用性和可操作性。 Based on the empirical functions of the three major pure functions of SFG, this article chooses the news articles of the same major international events from December 2004 to January 2005 as the research object, aiming at comparative analysis Two types of newspaper titles and lead language choice and explore the impact of contextual factors to further prove the system of functional linguistics “choice is the meaning of ” point of view, and verify the application of empirical function theory news discourse analysis of the applicability and Operability.