世贸组织总干事和世行总裁演讲词汇对比研究

论文摘要

世界贸易组织和世界银行是举世闻名并举足轻重的致力于经济发展的世界组织。其发言人,也就是世贸组织总干事拉米和世行总裁佐利克的演讲是向外界和世人传达其声音的载体。之前有关这两个组织的研究都集中在以法律视角对其法律文本和公约的研究和探讨,而本篇论文从语言学词汇学的角度把两者的演讲整理作为经济演讲语料,进行了词汇特点的对比分析。本文基于语料库,旨在研究二者演讲的词汇特点,从而探究代表两个相似的国际组织的发言人在词汇选择和词汇使用上的异同。本文作者建立了两个各超过10万字的语料库,分别是拉米演讲(PLSC)和佐利克演讲(RZSC),通过软件Antconc, FoxPro和SPSS进行了词汇量,高频词,词长,关键词,同有词和独有词的分析研究。研究表明,二者在词汇特点既有相似之处也有不同之处。相同之处在于,鉴于两个语料库均是有关国际性经济组织的演讲,都大量涉及经济词汇,比如economic, China等,能看出中国在世界经济发展中的显著地位；另外,两者所高频词汇和关键词汇均为普通用词,符合公共演讲词汇特点。不同之处在于世贸组织因涵盖经济合作和经济法规等内容,词频较高的词汇有WTO, Lamy等；而世界银行因其终极目标是通过给发展中国家提供财政援助解除世界贫苦,多涉及developing, Africa, aid, need等。最后总结出该项研究的意义,即对比研究他们的演讲语篇的词汇特点对更深入的理解有关这两个组织具有一定的帮助。此外对于语言学家和语言学习者,在教授和学习演讲课程的过程中能够起到借鉴和启示作用。此外本文研究结果可以对教材编写人员在课程教材编辑过程方面起到借鉴作用。

论文目录

• 摘要
• ABSTRACT
• List of Abbreviations
• List of Tables and Figures
• Contents
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Research Background
• 1.2 Purpose and Significance of the Research
• 1.2.1 Purpose of the Research
• 1.2.2 Significance of the Research
• 1.3 Research Questions
• 1.4 Layout of the Thesis
• Chapter 2 Literature Review
• 2.1 English Vocabulary
• 2.1.1 Development of English
• 2.1.2 Definition of Word
• 2.1.3 Classification of Word
• 2.1.4 Main Types of Word Meaning
• 2.2 Word Formation in English
• 2.2.1 Morphological Structure of Words
• 2.2.2 The Main Process of Word Formation
• 2.2.3 The Minor Process of Word Formation
• 2.3 Overviews of Public Speeches
• 2.3.1 Introduction to Public Speeches
• 2.3.2 Definition of Public Speeches
• 2.3.3 Development of Public Speeches
• 2.3.4 General Features of Public Speeches
• 2.4 Previous Lexical Studies on Public Speeches
• Chapter 3 Research Methodology
• 3.1 Data Collection
• 3.1.1 PLSC
• 3.1.2 RZSC
• 3.2. Instruments Adopted in This Thesis
• 3.2.1 Antconc
• 3.2.2 FoxPro
• 3.2.3 SPSS
• 3.3 The Methods of Analysis
• 3.3.1 Quantitative Analysis
• 3.3.2 Qualitative Analysis
• 3.4 Procedures of Data Processing
• Chapter 4 Results and Discussions
• 4.1 Vocabulary Richness Analysis of PLSC and RZSC
• 4.1.1 Vocabulary Size
• 4.1.2 Lexical Density
• 4.2 Mean Word length Analysis of PLSC and RZSC
• 4.3 Word Frequency Analysis of PLSC and RZSC
• 4.3.1 Discussion of Open-class Words
• 4.3.2 Discussion of Closed-class Words
• 4.4 Positive Key Words Analysis of PLSC and RZSC
• 4.4.1 Top 100 Positive Key Words in PLSC and RZSC
• 4.4.2 Word Class Distributions of Top 100 Positive Key Words in PLSC and RZSC
• 4.4.3 Negative Keyword List Top 100
• 4.5 Shared Words and Unique Words of PLSC and RZSC
• 4.5.1 Shared Words in PLSC and RZSC
• 4.5.2 Unique Words in PLSC and RZSC
• Chapter 5 Conclusion
• 5.1 Major Findings of the Research
• 5.2 Limitations
• 5.3 Pedagogical Implications
• 5.4 Suggestions for Further Study
• References
• Appendix
• Acknowledgements
• Resume