主语外置现象在中英学生学术英语写作中的语料库对比研究

发布时间：2018-05-30 10:02

本文选题：学术写作 + 主语it外置　；参考：《中国矿业大学》2017年硕士论文

【摘要】：随着英语在学术交流领域的地位越来越重要,如何培养学术语言对于外语学生和作者来说成为了一个迫切的问题。作为学术英语的典型特征,主语it外置现象已经有很多角度的研究。然而,鲜有对这一句法结构在本族语和非本族语者学术写作中的对比研究。而且遗憾的是,中国目前还没有在这一语言现象上较为系统的研究。因此,本研究试图从句法和语义的角度,结合以往研究中较成熟的方法和理论,将本族语学生——尤其是英国学生——和中国学生的学术文章或论文进行比较。从两个语料库中提取出的符合条件的句子被分成4种外置小句类型和4种主句结构类型。研究发现,本族语者和中国学生都偏好that,to两种外置句类型和SVC,SV两种主句结构,尤其是形容词和to,以及被动动词和that的固定搭配。但就使用频率和语义偏好方面而言,两语料库还是存在显著差异,这反映出两个学术写作群体借助这一句型想要传达的意思的差异。为了将研究结果运用到实践中并帮助改善中国的学术写作状况,研究最后还总结出了本族语作者的固定搭配列表,为国内学术英语写作教学提供些许有价值的建议和参考。
[Abstract]:With the increasing importance of English in the field of academic communication, how to cultivate academic language has become an urgent problem for foreign language students and authors. As a typical feature of academic English, subject it externalization has been studied from many angles. However, there are few contrastive studies of this syntactic structure in native and non-native academic writing. Unfortunately, there is no systematic study on this phenomenon in China. Therefore, from the perspective of syntax and semantics, this study attempts to compare the academic articles or papers of native speakers, especially English students, with those of Chinese students by combining the more mature methods and theories in previous studies. The qualified sentences extracted from two corpora were divided into four types of clauses and four types of main sentence structure. It is found that both native speakers and Chinese students prefer the two types of outer-adverbial sentence types and SVC- SV structures, especially adjectives and tos, as well as the fixed collocations of passive verbs and that. However, in terms of frequency of use and semantic preference, there are still significant differences between the two corpora, which reflects the differences between the two academic writing groups in terms of the meaning they wish to convey with the help of this sentence pattern. In order to apply the results to practice and to help improve the situation of academic writing in China, the study concludes the fixed collocation list of native language authors, which provides some valuable suggestions and references for the teaching of academic English writing in China.
【学位授予单位】：中国矿业大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2017
【分类号】：H319.3

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