The use of reporting verbs is a common way in the collaborative construction of new knowledge by academic writers and readers.Most researches that concerns reporting verbs are limited to mono-lingual studies.Contrasti...The use of reporting verbs is a common way in the collaborative construction of new knowledge by academic writers and readers.Most researches that concerns reporting verbs are limited to mono-lingual studies.Contrastive Phraseology is a newly emerging subfield of Contrastive Linguistics from the perspective of Phraseology,which aims at comparing the multi-lingual phrases in form,meaning and function.This research analyzed the Chinese equivalents of English reporting verbs aided by the comparable corpora.It is found that there is no equivalence of Chinese and English reporting verbs in research articles,and evaluative reporting verbs is more frequently used in English research articles.This study fundamentally shed light on the contrastive study of reporting verb phrases cross language.展开更多
Reporting verbs are not only an important means of presenting characters’speeches,but also an important means of characterization in narratives.The original and the two English versions of Eileen Chang’s novella“St...Reporting verbs are not only an important means of presenting characters’speeches,but also an important means of characterization in narratives.The original and the two English versions of Eileen Chang’s novella“Steamed Osmanthus”are used as a corpus to conduct a comparative analysis focusing on the reporting verbs of the heroine Ah-Xiao.The analysis shows that the two translators-Eileen Chang herself and Simon Patton-have different styles.Patton favors the use of structuring verbs(especially“replied”)and neutral verbs in serial verb constructions while Chang tends to use neutral verbs glossed by an adverb,an adjective or a prepositional phrase.Descriptive verbs,especially prosodic verbs,also predominate in Chang’s version.As a result,both versions may have shaped a different Ah Xiao.展开更多
文摘The use of reporting verbs is a common way in the collaborative construction of new knowledge by academic writers and readers.Most researches that concerns reporting verbs are limited to mono-lingual studies.Contrastive Phraseology is a newly emerging subfield of Contrastive Linguistics from the perspective of Phraseology,which aims at comparing the multi-lingual phrases in form,meaning and function.This research analyzed the Chinese equivalents of English reporting verbs aided by the comparable corpora.It is found that there is no equivalence of Chinese and English reporting verbs in research articles,and evaluative reporting verbs is more frequently used in English research articles.This study fundamentally shed light on the contrastive study of reporting verb phrases cross language.
文摘Reporting verbs are not only an important means of presenting characters’speeches,but also an important means of characterization in narratives.The original and the two English versions of Eileen Chang’s novella“Steamed Osmanthus”are used as a corpus to conduct a comparative analysis focusing on the reporting verbs of the heroine Ah-Xiao.The analysis shows that the two translators-Eileen Chang herself and Simon Patton-have different styles.Patton favors the use of structuring verbs(especially“replied”)and neutral verbs in serial verb constructions while Chang tends to use neutral verbs glossed by an adverb,an adjective or a prepositional phrase.Descriptive verbs,especially prosodic verbs,also predominate in Chang’s version.As a result,both versions may have shaped a different Ah Xiao.
