中外汉语国际教育硕士学位论文摘要元话语使用对比分析

A Comparative Analysis of the Metadiscourse Used in Abstracts of Chinese and Foreign TCSOL Students' Master Theses

为了研究汉语母语者与汉语非母语者在学术汉语写作中元话语使用上的异同,本文通过构建语料库,分析和比较了中外汉语国际教育硕士学位论文摘要部分的元话语使用情况。研究发现,中外学生在元话语的使用上具有一定共性。同时,中外学生在元话语各个次小类的使用次数上存在显著差异。外国学生所使用的元话语词汇种类不如中国学生丰富,并且存在口语化的问题。

To study the similarities and differences between Chinese native speakers and foreign Chinese learners in Chinese academic writing,the paper analyzes the metadiscourse used in the abstract section of Chinese and foreign master theses of International Chinese Education through the methods of corpus analysis and comparative analysis.The study finds that Chinese and foreign students have a certain commonality in using metadiscourse.At the same time,Chinese and foreign students have significant differences in the frequency of using each subcategory of metadiscourse.The metadiscourse vocabulary of foreign students is not as rich as Chinese students’.And some metadiscourse markers used by foreign students are too colloquial.