语料库辅助的英语教材词块分析——以动词词块为例

Corpus-aided Analysis on Lexical Chunks in Textbooks for English Majors: A Case Study on Verb Chunks

回顾二语习得领域关于词块的研究以及语料库用于教材词汇评析的发展状况;以语料库语言学的词汇语法作为理论支撑,在英语专业教材《综合教程》中找出与Coxhead学术词汇相吻合的动词,尝试以大型英语本族语者语料库COCA为参照,把这些动词的深度知识,如搭配词(Collocates)、类联接(Colligation)、语义趋向(Semantic preference)、语义韵(Semantic prosody)与它们在教材中的呈现样貌进行对比分析;以动词sustain作为具体的例子,把该词在整套教材中的呈现样貌与其在COCA中所呈现的深度知识进行比较分析,期待能为语料库手段应用于英语专业教材分析提供一个新的切入点。

This paper first presents a brief review of research on lexical chunks and corpus-aided analysis on lexical chunks in textbooks,then applies the lexical grammar theory to analyze the depth knowledge,such as collocates,colligation,semantic preference and semantic prosody of the language patterns of the academic verbs appearing in the textbook series ＂An Integrated English Course＂ by using the English native corpus COCA as a reference corpus.Taking the verb ＂sustain＂ as the specific target,this research tries to compare its depth knowledge in the textbook series for English majors and that in the English native corpus COCA,hoping to provide a new cutting point for corpus-aided analysis on lexical chunks in textbooks.