基于口语语料库的非英语专业与英语专业学生连接语使用状况的对比研究

A Contrastive Analysis of Conjunctions Used by Non-English Majors and English Majors in Spoken Corpora

本文以韩礼德和哈桑的衔接理论和系统功能语法为基础,借助中国学习者口语语料库对非英语专业与英语专业学生连接语的使用状况进行研究。本研究参照Quirk等的连接语分类法,对比分析了非英语专业和英语专业学生在英语口语中连接语的使用状况。通过研究发现,英语专业和非英语专业学生口语中连接语的使用既具有趋同性,又存在显著差异:(1)两者都频繁使用例举和结果关系的连接语,而较少使用总结、推断、过渡关系的连接语;(2)在个别语义使用上具有显著差异,非英语专业学生较少使用举例、推理、对比、转题等类别的连接语,而过多使用总结、同位和结果关系类连接语;(3)中国大学生口语中连接语的使用具有书面语倾向。本研究还对产生这种异同的因素如语域意识的缺乏、思维方式的不同、口语考试话题的限制等进行了分析。

On the basis of Halliday and Hasan＇s theory of cohesion and SFG, this paper presents a study on conjunctions used by NEMs and EMs on Chinese learners＇ spoken English corpora. Following Quirk et al. ＇s classification, similarities and differences of conjunctions used by NEMs and EMs have been contrastively examined. After quantitative and qualitative analysis it has been found out： （ 1 ） Both groups frequently use a larger number of listing and resultive relations, whereas a small number of summative, inferential and transitional relations. （2）Their use of semantic categories are significantly different, NEMs underuse some listing, inferential, contrastive, transitional conjunctions while they overuse summative, appositive and resultive ones. （3） Chinese learners bear the written features in their spoken discourse. Finally, some factors which may contribute to such features have been analyzed such as lack of register awareness, different thinking modes, and restrictions to test topics.