中外语言类期刊高被引论文英文摘要语言特征多维分析

Multi-Dimensional Analysis of the English Abstracts of the Most-Cited Articles in Linguistic Journals

研究引起国内外学者的关注。文章基于Biber的多维分析法,从6个维度对5种语言类SSCI期刊和5种外国语文CSSCI期刊上的200篇高被引论文摘要的语言特征进行多维度对比分析,旨在发现中国学者撰写语言类论文英文摘要时语言特征使用方面存在的问题。研究结果表明,中外期刊高被引论文摘要在6个话语功能维度上并不存在显著差异,但是同一维度上部分具体的语言特征使用存在差异。中国高级英语学习者对于现在时动词、现在分词从句、必要情态动词等语言特征使用过多,对于第一人称代词、过去时动词、主位wh-从句、劝说类动词、宾位that从句等使用过少,对这些语言特征的语用功能缺乏足够的认识和重视。

In recent years,the study of English abstracts is of increasing concerns.Based on Biber＇s MDA,this paper analyzed the 6 dimensions of 200 abstracts of the most cited papers from 5 SSCI and 5 CSSCI linguistic journals,in an attempt to explore the employment of the linguistic features in the abstracts written by Chinese and Western scholars.Our findings show that there is no significant difference between the abstracts in SSCI journals and CSSCI journals on the6 dimensions,while there are different employments of the linguistic features on the same dimension.Chinese scholars overuse present tense verbs,present participial clauses,necessity modals,etc.,and underuse the 1st-person pronouns,past tense verbs,wh-relative clauses in subject position,suasive verbs,that relative clauses on object positions,etc.The overuse/underuse indicates that Chinese scholars neglect the communicative functions of these linguistic features.