第7届中国外语中青年学者科研方法研讨会学科界面研究与方”.pptVIP

(1) She made him a good husband. Material process: causative (make) Agent (she), Affected-Carrier (him), Attribute (a good husband) Cf: He is a good husband. Material process: Agent Affected (Medium) / Actor Goal Relational process: Carrier Attribute (2) She made him a good wife. Relational process: non-causative (make) Carrier (she), Beneficiary (him), Attribute (a good wife) Cf: She is a good wife. Relational process: Carrier Attribute 8 讨论 界面研究方法 方法与“工具” 不同学科的相同方法 一个学科中的不同方法 学术研究与“解决问题”（problem-solving） 方法的选择 举例（摘自黄国文、M. Ghadessy《英语学位论文写作教程》，高等教育出版社，2008） A court case between McDonald’s Corporation and Quality Inns International, Inc. Cause: the use of “McSleep” (hotel) Background: McDonald’s argued they have created a “McLanguage” and children are taught to how to “Mc-ise” the standard vocabulary of generic words to create “McFries”, “McFish”, “McShakes” and “McBest”. Roger Shuy, an American forensic linguist, was asked by Quality Inns to help with two linguistic arguments: (1) the morpheme “Mc” was in common use productively, when it was not seen to be linked in any way to McDonald’s, (2) such examples showed that the prefix, originally patronymic, equivalent in meaning to the “son” in “Johnson”, had become generic and thus now has a meaning of its own, which was recognizably distinct from both of the other meanings “son of” and “associated with McDonald’s”. Research methods？ Shuy: chose a corpus linguistic approach and searched to find real text instances of “Mcmorphemes”; among the 56 examples he found were general terms like McArt, McCinema, McSurgery and McPrisons, as well as some items already being used commercially like the McThrift Motor Inn, a budget motel with a Scottish motif and McTek a computer discount store which specialized in Apple Mac computer products. On the basis of such examples, Shuy argued that the prefix had become in the language at large a lexical item with its own meaning of “basic, convenient, inexpensive and standardi