中外学术语篇中高频标记名词及词汇语法型式对比分析

A contrastive study on the use of signaling nouns and lexical-grammatical patterns between foreign language and Chinese academic writing

本研究对比了150万词的中外语言学论文库中高频标记名词及其词汇语法型式的异同。研究显示:1)频率上,与本族语学者相比,中国学者总体上显著少用标记名词;2)中外学者使用三种主要词汇语法型式的比例接近,均为句内型式多于句间前指型式,句间前指型式多于句间后指型式;3)中国学者使用三种主要词汇语法型式的频率均低于本族语学者;4)中外学者均偏好"this/these+标记名词"的句间前指型式和"标记名词+介词短语"的句内型式,但这种差异因词而异,如本族语学者倾向于使用idea和way的"标记名词+that"型式,而中国学者更偏好idea和way的"标记名词+of"型式;5)中国学者使用句内型式的多样性少于本族语学者。

By building a 1.5-million corpus of research articles in linguistics,this study compares the differences and similari-tiesin the use of high-frequency signaling nouns(SNs)and their lexical-grammatical patterns between L1 and Chinese re-search articles.The study shows that:1)overall,in terms of frequency,Chinese scholars use SNs significantly less frequently than L1 scholars;2)both groups of scholars display similar proportions of the use of three major patterns:more in-clause pat-tern s than across-clause anaphoric patterns and more across-clause anaphoric patterns than across-clause cataphoric patterns;3)Ch inese scholars use all the three lexical-grammatical patterns less frequently than L1 scholars;4)both groups of writers prefer"th is/these+SN"structure in across-clause anaphoric patterns and"SN+preposition"structure in in-clause patterns.Howe ver,this tendency differs from SN to SN.For example,L1 scholars ten d to use idea and way in the"SN+that"pattern,while Chinese scholars prefer to use them in the"SN+of"pattern;and 5)Chinese scholars use less varied in-clause patterns thanL1 scholars.