高职英语学习者定式小句入场方式的实证研究

An Empirical Study on the Strategies of Grounding Finite Clauses for Chinese EFL Learners in Higher Vocational Colleges

入场反映了认知主体参照言语事件的语境“安置”某一实体的过程。在对定式小句所表达的概念实施入场操作过程中,高职英语学习者呈现出显著的特点。他们在使用英语表征概念时具有语境定位意识,能遵循突显概念优先原则聚焦现实世界空间。高职学生偏向使用有定入场策略,采用近距式入场元素标记意指对象。由于学生无法有效了解远、近距式元素对动作完成性的语义限制,所以他们在使用高语义限制的近距式元素时呈现较高的错误率。此外,高职学生存在量化入场元素过量使用的现象。由于他们一方面对量化入场元素的时间语义认识模糊,另一方面对情态动词的参照点缺乏区分意识,导致低水平英语学习者在使用量化入场元素时出现错误。

Grounding represents the process of anchoring an entity in the context of the speech event.Influenced by the consciousness of grounding,those students,referring to the priority principle of profiled concept,can impose the focus on the conceptual space of the reality.The students are inclined to adopt the strategy of definite grounding and designate the conceived entity by the proximal predication.Since the students cannot fully understand the semantic restrictions in proximal and distal predications,it is easier for them to makes mistakes when using the proximal ones which have more restrictions.In addition,the students overuse quantificational grounding predications.They fail to recognize the temporal elements in the relevant predications and cannot effectively select the reference point for different modal verbs.This results in the mistakes when the students use modal verbs to realize grounding operation.