国际期刊论文题目的专业度分析

Professionalization in International Journal Article Titles in Applied Linguistics

期刊论文题目的专业度可以从概念密度和语类混合现象两个维度进行考察。题目的概念密度具有学科间和学科内差异,题目的历年概念密度与期刊的历年影响因子显著相关,彰显了论文作者对新研究成果要旨和潜在读者期待的把握;语类混合现象主要出现在复合型结构的题目中,出现频率不高,但这不仅体现了学术自由度,更是一种展示成果亮点、吸引读者注意力的有效话语策略。从学术话语互文性和互话性特征可知,论文题目的专业度取决于作者的读者意识和对期刊刊文惯例的了解程度,旨在提升读者对新成果的认知体验,反映了作者在遵循特定话语社团学术规约的同时对新成果进行"抛砖引玉式推销"的努力,这是科学知识的社会构建过程。

Titles of journal research articles （RAs） serve the function of promoting new knowledge claims made in articles. They have been analyzed from the perspectives of length, syntactic structures, punctuation marks, and discourse functions, and have attracted considerable attention in applied linguistics and discourse studies in recent years. Professionalization embedded in journal article titles, a feature that is relatively overlooked, performs the promoting function by means of conceptual density and genre mixing. For the purpose of the present study, a specialized corpus was constructed consisting of 250 data-based RAs＇ English titles from five international journals in the field of applied linguistics argue that the conceptual density of professionalization and genre mixing in journal article titles, while following specific communal conventions, are important discourse strategies authors pursue for promoting research reported in their articles. By exploring the conceptual density of genre mixing, we are more capable of revealing the promotional nature of discourse strategies RA authors adopt for making new knowledge claims in journal research articles.