基于语料库的海关新闻英语语域特征多维分析
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摘要
本文运用多维分析法,对海关新闻英语、通用英语及综合新闻英语进行了语料库对比分析。结果表明:从话语功能上看,相对于通用英语和综合新闻英语,海关新闻英语表现出较强的信息性(如名词、长词和形容词频数高)、较低的叙述性(过去时和第三人称代词频数低)和较高的情景依赖性(名词化频数高、副词频数低)。从词汇语法特征上看,与通用英语相比,名词化和长词的频数高是海关新闻英语显著而独特的语言特征。
This study makes a contrastive corpus-based analysis of Customs News English, General English and General News English with the Multi-dimensional(MD) Analysis. The result shows that from the perspective of discourse functions, compared with General English and General News English, Customs News English is more informationally dense(e.g. with more nouns, long words and adjectives), less narrative(e.g. with less past tenses and third person pronouns), and more context dependent(e.g. with more nominalizations and less adverbs). From the perspective of linguistic features, Customs News English presents Nominalization and long AWL(Average Word Length) as its two distinguished and unique features.
This study makes a contrastive corpus-based analysis of Customs News English, General English and General News English with the Multi-dimensional(MD) Analysis. The result shows that from the perspective of discourse functions, compared with General English and General News English, Customs News English is more informationally dense(e.g. with more nouns, long words and adjectives), less narrative(e.g. with less past tenses and third person pronouns), and more context dependent(e.g. with more nominalizations and less adverbs). From the perspective of linguistic features, Customs News English presents Nominalization and long AWL(Average Word Length) as its two distinguished and unique features.
引文
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[3] Besnier, N. The linguistic relationships of spoken and written nukulaelae registers[J]. Language,1988(4): 707-36.
[4] Biber, D. Investigating macroscopic textual variation through multifeature/multidimensional analyses[J]. Linguistics, 1985(2):337-360.
[5] Biber, D. Spoken and written textual dimensions in English: Resolving the contradictory tindings[J]. Language, 1986(2):384-414.
[6] Biber, D. Variation Across Speech and Writing[M]. London: Routledge, 1988.
[7] Biber, D. Representativeness in corpus design[J]. Literary & Linguistic Computing, 1993(4):377-407.
[8] Biber, D. Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-linguistic Comparison[M].Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
[9] Biber, D. & Finegan, E. Drift and the evolution of English style: A history of three genres[J]. Language,1989(3):487-517.
[10]Biber, D., S. Conrad, R. Reppen, P. Byrd & M. Helt. Speaking and writing in the university: A multidimensional comparison[J]. TESOL Quarterly, 2002(1):9-48.
[11]Biber, D. & E. Finegan. Sociolinguistics Perspectives on Register[M]. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
[12]Biber, D. & M. Hared. Dimensions of register variation in Somali[J]. Language Variation & Change, 1992(1):41-75.
[13]Biber, D. University Language: A Corpus-based Study of Spoken and Written Registers[M].Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006.
[14]Biber, D. Using multi-dimensional analysis to explore cross-linguistic universals of register variation[J]. Languages in Contrast, 2014(1):7-34.
[15]Biber, D. & J. Egbert. Register variation on the searchable web: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis[J]. Journal of English Linguistics, 2016(2): 95-137.
[16]Connor-linton, Jeff. Author’s style and world-view in nuclear discourse: A quantitative analysis[J]. Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 1988(1-2): 95-132.
[17]Flowerdew, J. & M.Peacock. Issues in EAP: A preliminary perspective[A].In Flowerdew, J. & P. Matthew(eds.). Research Perspective on English for Academic Purposes[C].Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001: 8-24.
[18]Friginal E. Twenty-five years of Biber’s Multi-Dimensional Analysis: Introduction to the special issue and an interview with Douglas Biber[J]. Corpora, 2013(2):137-152.
[19]Hutchinson,T. & A. Waters. English for Specific Purposes: A Learning centered Approach[M].Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1987.
[20]Kim, Y. & D. Biber. A corpus-based analysis of regeister variation in Korea[A]. In Biber,D. & E. Finegan(eds.). Sociolingusitic Perspective on Register[C]. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994: 157-181.
[21]Nini,A. 2015. Multidimensinal Analysis Tagger 1.3-Manual[R/OL]. http://www.bfsu-corpus.org/channels/tools.(2018-2-22).
[22]Tribble, C. WordSmith Tools[M]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
[23]Xiao, R. Multidimensional analysis and the study of World Englishes[J]. World Englishes, 2009(4): 421-450.
[24]Xiao, Z. & Mcenery, A. Two approaches to Genre Analysis[J]. Journal of English Linguistics, 2005(1): 62-82.
[25]Watson, G. A multidimensional analysis of style in Mudrooroo Nyoongah’s prose works[J]. Text, 1994(2): 239-286.
[26]江进林, 许家金. 基于语料库的商务英语语域特征多维分析[J]. 外语教学与研究, 2015(2): 225-236.
[27]李文中. 搭配的界定、测量与中国学习者语料库搭配分析[J]. 外语教学, 2017(2): 70-74.
[28]张海明. 大学英语ESP项目课程的内涵与设计[J]. 外语教学理论与实践, 2016(1): 73-78.