中美语言学博士论文的元话语研究

发布时间：2018-11-24 17:33

【摘要】：元话语引导读者阅读语篇,并建立作者与读者之间的联系。近几十年来,元话语受到越来越多的关注,很多研究考察了元话语在学术写作中的使用情况。然而,学位论文的“引言”部分是被忽视的一个领域,且鲜有学者调查过英语本族语者与非本族语者使用元话语的异同。为填补这些不足,本研究以Hyland(2005)对元话语的分类模式为基础,对元话语在中美语言学博士论文“引言”部分中的使用情况进行对比分析。本研究共选取了中美25所大学56篇博士论文的“引言”部分作为语料,旨在探讨中美博士论文“引言”部分中元话语的总体特征,以及在交际元话语和互动元话语使用方面的异同。结果显示,交际元话语总体多于互动元话语。对比中美论文的“引言”部分发现,过渡标记和言据标记的数量无显著差异。然而美国论文的“引言”部分中,回指标记、语码注释语、模糊语、增强语、自称语和介入标记这六类元话语显著较多。定性分析结果显示,中美论文的“引言”部分中,交际元话语的功能相似,但表达形式不同。类似情况也出现在互动元话语的使用中。以上结果表明,在中美语言学博士论文的“引言”部分中,使用较多的是元话语的交际功能。另外,由于社会文化、“引言”部分的结构以及作者英语水平等差异,美国论文的“引言”部分中元话语数量较多,表达形式更加丰富。鉴于元话语对论文写作的重要性,教师应探索运用有效教学手段帮助学生学习元话语。学生应接触更多国际学术论文,熟悉英语元话语的词汇意义及使用情境。此外,论文评估过程中也应对作者的写作能力给予更多关注。
[Abstract]:Meta-discourse guides readers to read texts and establishes the relationship between authors and readers. In recent decades, meta-discourse has attracted more and more attention. Many studies have examined the use of meta-discourse in academic writing. However, the introduction is a neglected field, and few scholars have investigated the similarities and differences between native English speakers and non-native speakers. In order to fill these deficiencies, this study, based on Hyland's (2005) classification model of meta discourse, makes a contrastive analysis of the use of meta discourse in the introduction of the Ph. D. thesis of Chinese and American Linguistics. In this study, the "introduction" of 56 doctoral theses of 25 universities in China and the United States is selected as the corpus to explore the general characteristics of the Chinese and meta discourse in the "introduction" of the doctoral thesis of China and the United States. And the similarities and differences in the use of communicative meta-discourse and interactive meta-discourse. The results show that communicative meta-discourse is more than interactive meta-discourse. Comparing the introduction of Chinese and American papers, we find that there is no significant difference in the number of transitional markers and verbal markers. However, in the "introduction" of the American thesis, the six kinds of meta-discourse, such as index notation, code-annotation, vagueness, reinforcement, self-proclaimed language and interventional marker, are significantly more. The qualitative analysis shows that the function of communicative meta-discourse is similar, but the expression form is different. Similar situations occur in the use of interactive meta-discourse. The above results indicate that in the introduction of the Ph. D. thesis in Chinese and American linguistics, the communicative function of meta-discourse is used more frequently. In addition, due to the differences in social culture, the structure of the introduction and the author's English proficiency, the number of meta-discourse in the "introduction" of American papers is more numerous and the forms of expression are more abundant. In view of the importance of meta-discourse to the writing of papers, teachers should explore the use of effective teaching methods to help students learn meta discourse. Students should be exposed to more international academic papers and be familiar with the lexical meaning and usage of English meta-discourse. In addition, more attention should be paid to the author's writing ability during the evaluation process.
【学位授予单位】：山东大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2015
【分类号】：H313

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