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英汉学术语篇中的元话语对比研究

阮先玉 胥 瑾   

  1. 西南石油大学外国语学院,四川 成都 610500
  • 出版日期:2016-01-01 发布日期:2016-01-01
  • 作者简介:阮先玉(1974 ),女(汉族),四川简阳人,讲师,硕士,研究方向:语用学、学术论文写作。
  • 基金资助:
    四川外国语言文学研究中心、上海外语教育出版社资助项目“英语专业学生写作中元话语应用研究”(SCWYH14 21);2015 四川省级大 学生创新创业训练计划项目“小型石油科技英汉平行语料库的建设与研究”(201510615019);西南石油大学国际油气资源区语言文化研 究中心项目“基于语料库的中英石油学术语篇中元话语对比研究”(YQWH201507);西南石油大学教改项目“以市场为导向的‘科技英 语翻译’课程建设”(X15021301087)。

A Contrastive Study on Application of Metadiscourse in English and Chinese Petroleum Academic Texts

RUAN Xianyu XU Jin   

  1. School of Foreign Languages,Southwest Petroleum University,Chengdu Sichuan,610500,China
  • Online:2016-01-01 Published:2016-01-01

摘要: 元话语是话语中不可缺少的语言手段,它用于在语篇中搭建文章框架、表达作者态度、实现作者 读者互动。 以 Hyland 的元话语人际模式为理论框架,以学术语篇摘要为具体研究对象,收集英语 SCI 索引期刊论文摘要 90 篇、 汉语核心期刊摘要 90 篇,自建小型语料库,采用定量和定性分析研究,结果发现:元话语在英汉摘要中均具有普遍性, 英汉作者均大量使用元话语形式来构建文章框架、实现与读者互动的交际目的;同时,英汉摘要中的元话语各次类的 使用既有数量上的差异,也有语言形式上的差异,但是英语摘要中的元话语数量显著多于汉语摘要,而且语言形式也 有更多变化。这种差异,可能源自英汉不同的语言特点、文化对语言的影响以及学术写作传统三个因素。

关键词: 学术论文, 摘要, 元话语, 元话语人际模式, 交际互动

Abstract: Metadiscourse is an important and indispensible language form employed to construct texts,express authors’attitude, and to realize reader-writer interaction in discourses. In this research,we took Hyland’s Interpersonal Model of metadiscourse as the theoretical framework to contrastively study how metadiscourse is applied and whether there exist any differences in the application in English and Chinese academic texts,from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives. We took abstracts of petroleum academic papers as the research subjects and built two small corpora by collecting 90 English abstracts from three SCI-indexed journals and 90 Chinese abstracts from three core journals in China. We found that metadiscourse is universal in both English and Chinese abstracts: authors from either language adopt various metadiscourse devices to actualize their interactive as well as interactional purposes. And there exist significant differences in both frequency and linguistic forms between English and Chinese metadiscourse resources,and significantly more metadiscourse devices are used in English abstracts. These differences may result from three factors: different language features,the influences of culture on language and different academic writing traditions.

Key words: abstracts of English and Chinese petroleum academic papers, abstracts, metadiscourse, Interpersonal Model of metadiscourse, intercommunication and interaction

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