顺应论视角下英汉商业新闻中模糊限制语的对比研究

发布时间：2018-07-16 23:02

【摘要】：模糊限制语广泛存在于言语交际当中，是模糊语言的典型代表。该术语由G. Lakoff于1972年首次提出。自此以后，模糊限制语引起了语言学家越来越多的关注。例如，Prince et al.(1982)， Hyland (1994)， Channel (2000)，何自然(1985)，伍铁平(1999)等学者从语篇分析，语用功能以及英汉对比分析等方面对模糊限制语进行了研究。新闻，作为大众传媒，在人们的日常生活中起着举足轻重的作用，因此也成为了学者们研究的热点。对于模糊限制语和新闻，虽然学者们从不同的角度进行了大量的研究，但是对于商业新闻中的模糊限制语的研究却较少，而有关英汉商业新闻中模糊限制语的对比研究则更不多见。因此，本文在前人研究的基础上，依照G. Lakoff对模糊限制语的定义，按照Prince等人对模糊限制语的分类标准，在Verschueren顺应论框架下，对英汉商业新闻中的模糊限制语进行了对比研究。具体而言，，本文围绕以下四个研究问题展开：(1)英汉商业新闻中主要运用了哪几种模糊限制语？(2)英汉商业新闻中各类模糊限制语的使用情况有何异同？(3)如何运用顺应论来解释英汉商业新闻中出现模糊限制语这一现象？(4)模糊限制语在英汉商业新闻中的语用功能有哪些？为了探讨以上的研究问题，作者自建了两个微型的语料库，分别是英语商业新闻语料库和汉语商业新闻语料库。每个语料库均由30篇新闻组成。所有60篇新闻均选自中国和英语语言国家的权威新闻网站。为增强语料的可比性，本研究选取对同一事件的英汉新闻报道。作者对这两个自建语料库进行了定量、定性及对比性分析。结果表明：（1）在英汉商业新闻中四种模糊限制语都会频繁出现，但是，英汉商业新闻中对于四种模糊限制语使用的偏好有所不同。英语商业新闻中使用最多的是间接缓和语，其次是范围变动语，再次是程度变动语，最后是直接缓和语；而汉语商业新闻中使用最多的是程度变动语，其次是范围变动语，再次是间接缓和语，最后是直接缓和语。（2）在商业新闻中使用模糊限制语是对物理世界，心理世界和社会世界的顺应。（3）在这些顺应的过程中，模糊限制语发挥了重要的语用功能，例如使新闻报道更加准确、客观、有礼貌，同时对新闻报道者还可以起到自我保护的作用等。
[Abstract]:Hedges exist widely in verbal communication and are typical representatives of vague languages. The term was first coined by G. Lakoff in 1972. Since then, hedges have attracted more and more attention from linguists. For example, Prince et al. (1982, Hyland (1994), Channel (2000), he Nature (1985) and Wu Tieping (1999) have studied hedges from discourse analysis, pragmatic functions and contrastive analysis between English and Chinese. News, as a mass media, plays an important role in people's daily life. For hedges and news, although scholars have done a lot of research from different angles, there are few researches on vague hedges in business news. The contrastive study of hedges in English and Chinese business news is even less common. Therefore, on the basis of previous studies, this paper makes a comparative study of vague hedges in English and Chinese business news under the framework of Verschueren's adaptation Theory, according to the definition of hedges given by G. Lakoff, and according to Prince's criteria for classifying hedges. Specifically, This paper focuses on the following four research questions: (1) which kinds of hedges are mainly used in English and Chinese business news? (2) what are the similarities and differences in the use of various kinds of hedges in English and Chinese business news? (3) how to use adaptation theory to solve the problem? What are the pragmatic functions of hedges in English and Chinese business news? (4) what are the pragmatic functions of hedges in English and Chinese business news? In order to explore the above problems, the author has built two microcorpus, English Business News Corpus and Chinese Commercial News Corpus. Each corpus consists of 30 news articles. All 60 news articles are selected from authoritative news websites in China and English language countries. In order to enhance the comparability of the corpus, this study selects English and Chinese news reports on the same event. The author makes quantitative, qualitative and comparative analysis of the two self-built corpus. The results show that: (1) in English and Chinese business news, four kinds of hedges appear frequently, but the preference for the use of the four hedges in English and Chinese business news is different. In English business news, the most frequently used language is the indirect detente, followed by the range variable, the degree change, and the direct detente, while the Chinese business news uses the degree change most frequently, followed by the scope change. The second is indirect detente, and the last is direct detente. (2) the use of hedges in business news is the adaptation to the physical, psychological and social worlds. (3) in the process of these adaptations, hedges play an important pragmatic role. For example, to make news reports more accurate, objective, polite, and can also play a self-protection role.
【学位授予单位】：西安外国语大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2013
【分类号】：H15;H315

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