基于语料库的对比连接词研究

论文摘要

本文依据语料库采用定量及定性分析相结合的方法,旨在揭示中国非英语专业学生对比连接词的使用特点。本文通过应用Wordsmith和SPSS计算软件,对在中国学习者语料库的子库St3、St4和本族语语料库BROWN中出现的对比连接词的使用上进行量化分析和对比研究,结果发现在对比连接词的使用上,中国非英语专业大学生与本族语使用者存在显著差异。和本族语使用者相比,中国非英语专业大学生使用对比连接词的频率较高,但使用种类较少。由于缺乏文体意识,中国非英语专业学习者过度使用一些简单的对比连接词,而忽略使用许多应在正式文体中出现的连接词。在对比连接副词及介词短语的使用位置选择上,中国非英语专业学习者习惯把对比连接副词及介词短语放在句首。此外,学习者还存在误用情况,如冗余、选词不当等,误用的原因有母语干扰,简化规则,及逻辑语义关系混乱等。

论文目录

• 摘要
• Abstract
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Research Background
• 1.2 Research Questions and Significance
• 1.3 Overview of this Thesis
• Chapter 2 Literature Review
• 2.1 Definition of Contrastive Connectors
• 2.2 Syntactic Classification of Contrastive Connectors
• 2.2.1 Halliday's Classification
• 2.2.2 Biber et al.'s Classification
• 2.3 The Position of Adverbial Contrastive Connectors
• 2.4 Previous Studies on Contrastive Connectors
• 2.5 Data Analysis Theories
• 2.5.1 Interlanguage
• 2.5.2 Language Transfer
• 2.5.3 Error Analysis
• Chapter 3 Data Collection and Research Methodology
• 3.1 Corpora
• 3.1.1 The Learner Corpus
• 3.1.2 The Native Corpus
• 3.2 Instrument
• 3.3 Corpus-based Analysis and CIA
• 3.4 Data Collection Procedures
• Chapter 4 Data Analysis and Discussion
• 4.1 Classification of Contrastive Connectors in this Thesis
• 4.1.1 Contrastive Conjunctions
• 4.1.2 Adverbial Contrastive Connectors
• 4.1.3 Prepositional Contrastive Connectors
• 4.2 Comparison of Contrastive Connectors between LC and BROWN
• 4.2.1 Overall Frequency of Contrastive Connectors in LC and BROWN
• 4.2.2 Frequency of Contrastive Connectors in LC and BROWN
• 4.2.3 Overuse and Underuse of Contrastive Connectors in LC
• 4.2.4 Position of Contrastive Connectors in LC and BROWN
• 4.2.5 Summary
• 4.3 Error Analysis
• 4.3.1 Description of Errors
• 4.3.2 Errors in Using Contrastive Conjunction
• 4.3.3 Errors in Using Adverbial Contrastive Connector
• 4.3.4 Errors in Using Prepositional Contrastive Connector
• 4.3.5 Errors in Logical-semantic Relationship
• 4.3.6 Causes of Errors
• 4.3.7 Summary
• Chapter 5 Conclusion
• 5.1 Major Findings of this Research
• 5.2 Pedagogical Implications
• 5.3 Limitations for this Study
• References
• Acknowledgements
• Resume