中美大学生英语语篇对比修辞分析

A Contrastive Rhetorical Analysis Between EFL and ENL Writing

中美大学生英语语篇对比修辞分析结果显示 ,中国学生英语作文的主体句型是简单句 ,美国学生作文的主体句型是复合句。中国学生使用定语从句和宾语从句的数量显著低于美国学生 ,使用连接词语的数量显著高于美国学生。虽然中美学生的作文在某些语篇特征的使用数量上存在差异 ,但两者在这些特征的分布顺序上却是一致的。

A contrastive rhetorical analysis was made between English essays written by Chinese students and those by American students. The results of the study indicate that the mainstream sentence in Chinese students' writing is the simple sentence while that in American students' writing is the compound sentence. Chinese students use fewer attributive and adverbial clauses but more conjunctions than American students. Though some quantitative differences exist between Chinese and American students in some discourse features, there is no difference in the ordinal patterns of these features between them.