中英文学术段落连贯性的对比研究 ——从话题结构分析的视角

论文摘要

在中英对比修辞研究中,写作的连贯性多从主位结构的角度进行阐述。本文旨在通过主题结构的分析比较中英文学术段落的连贯性,研究了中英文学术段落各20段,比较其在主题结构的对比分析。主题结构分析通过检测各段关键词和词组的重复所反映的内部主题结构,从而体现中英专家作者所偏爱的段落组织架构。主题结构分析的结果表明,英语段落往往内部连贯性更强,而中文段落则使用连续推进作为连贯性的主要途径。文章最后谈论研究结果对中英两种语言的写作教学方面的启示。

论文目录

• Abstract
• Acknowledgement
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• List of Graphs
• List of Tables
• Appendices
• Chapter One Introduction
• 1.1 Problems in Current EFL/ESL Writing and related research
• 1.2 Research on Contrastive Rhetoric
• 1.3 Research Questions
• 1.4 Organization of the Thesis
• Chapter Two Literature Review
• 2.1 Overview
• 2.2 Contrastive Rhetoric
• 2.3 Discourse Analysis
• 2.4 Research on Chinese and English Contrastive Rhetoric Concerning Discourse Analysis
• 2.5 Research on Textual Coherence
• 2.5.1 Introduction of Text Linguistics
• 2.5.2 Coherence in text linguistics
• 2.5.3 Previous studies on coherence in China
• 2.6 Topical Structure Analysis
• 2.6.1 Topical Progessions
• 2.6.2 Executing a Topical Structure Analysis
• 2.6.2.1 Identifying topics and comments
• 2.6.2.2 Topic Prominence vs． Subject Prominence
• 2.6.2.3. Charting Sentential Topics and Discourse Topics
• 2.6.3 Relationship between TSA & coherence
• 2.7 Summary of this chapter
• Chapter Three Research Design & Data Analysis
• 3.1 Background of the Research
• 3.2 Selection of Corpus
• 3.3 Data Analysis
• Chapter Four Results & Discussion
• Chapter Five Conclusion & Implications
• 5.1 Conclusion from the Research
• 5.2 Limitation of the Study
• 5.3 Pedagogical Implications
• References
• Appendix A
• Appendix B