商务词义限制性搭配产出性学习研究——以动名搭配WPI数据驱动学习为例

A Study of Productive Learning of Business Restricted Collocations: WPI based Data-Driven Learning of Verb-Noun Collocations

重视商务英语专业词汇与通用英语词汇共性关照下“和而不同”的特性是商务英语词汇学理论构建与教学实践必须直面的重要课题。虽然国内学界已认识到“搭配往往不能跨语言”,但搭配跨专业语域问题很少得到关注。笔者提出商务英语词义搭配比通用英语词义搭配有着更为严格的限制,在商务语境下搭配常常受限于专业语域。本文以商务搭配中最具挑战性的动名搭配为例,引介在线语料库WPI在提升词汇搭配产出能力中的具体应用,旨在改善学习者搭配产出能力滞后于接受理解能力的现象,倡导将语料库数据驱动学习方法应用于商务英语专业词汇产出性学习。

Contrastive study between BE vocabulary and GE vocabulary is a fundamental topic for theory and practice in Business English Lexicology. Further to the accepted view that collocations are usually “language-specific”, this paper suggests collocations quite often are domain-specific as well, for it is found that business collocations are more restricted than collocations in general English. Since L2 business learners' productive knowledge of collocations lags behind receptive understanding, productive learning of restricted collocations is problematic. Taking restricted Verb-Noun business collocations as examples, this paper introduces usages of WPI online corpus in identification of restricted collocations at lexical level. Language learning is changing towards data-driven and technology-based. It is hoped that corpus based data-driven learning could be more wildly used in productive learning of Business English vocabulary.