语类分析郑州大学自然语言处理实验室详解.ppt

* 语步均衡性分析 * A Genre Analysis of Chinese and English Abstracts of Academic Journal Articles: A Parallel-Corpus-based Study NIU Gui-ling School of Foreign Languages, Zhengzhou University mayerniu@163.com Contents Brief Introduction of Chinese-English Parallel Abstract Corpus (CEPAC) 教育部人文社会科学研究规划基金项目“基于平行语料库的中外学术期刊论文中英文摘要的语类分析研究” A Genre Analysis of Chinese and English Abstracts of Academic Journal Articles Why RA Abstract? Introduced into medical research articles first during the 1960s (Swales, 2010) . Underresearched: In 2005 (Montesi Urdiciain): barely 28 studies regarding research article (RA) abstracts then. Now: A sea of information, “an information explosion”, with several million research papers being published each year, and continual announcements of new journals being launched, either online or in hard copy or both. RA abstracts “have become a tool of mastering and managing the ever increasing information flow in the scientific community” (Ventola 1994a: 333), and developed into an increasingly important part-genre (Swales 2009). objective MOVEs and steps: differentiate from research articles as an independent genre in rhetorical MOVE structure. To generalize and illustrate the generic structural potential (GSP) of abstracts by using the advantage of big texts of corpus and analyzing the usage of rhetorical MOVE in them, with genre analysis and schematic structure as the theoretical basis. What is An Abstract? Cleveland (1983:104): An abstract summarizes the essential contents of a particular knowledge record and is a true surrogate of the document. Graetz (1985): The abstract is a time-saving device that can be used to find particular parts of the article without reading it; … knowing the structure in advance will help the reader to get into the article; …. An abstract should be concise and precise, indicating to the potential reader two things: (a) what was done, and (b) important results obtained. Functions Huckin (2001): 4 distinguishable f