基于ESP的多模态语料库构建与应用——以医学英语为例

Construction and Application of Multimodal Corpus Based on ESP——Taking Medical English as an Example

多模态语料库作为一种新型计算机辅助语言研究与学习工具,可以客观真实反映语言在使用过程中的全貌。对于促进专门用途英语教学、教师教育、多模态话语分析研究具有巨大应用价值。以医学英语为例,综述了语料库的相关理论和多模态语料库已有的研究成果,探索分析了借助Elan软件构建多模态语料库的过程,最后对这一小型自建多模态语料库的应用进行了多维探讨。

As a new type of computer aided language research and learning tool,multimodal corpus can objectively and truly reflect the whole picture of language in use.It has a great application value for promoting special-purpose English teaching,teacher education and multi-modal discourse analysis.This paper takes medical English as an example,summarizes the relevant theories of corpus and the existing research results of multimodal corpus,explores and analyzes the process of constructing multimodal corpus with Elan software,and finally analyzes the progress of this small self-built multi-modal corpus Application of multi-dimensional discussion.