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
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.
