Ideational Meaning in a Corpus of Student Academic Writing在主体的学生学术写作概念意义详解.doc

by Sheena Gardnerwith Alois Heuboeck and Hilary Nesi The 17th European Systemic-Functional Linguistics Conference Workshop1st-4th August, 2005. Kings College London, UK Theme: “Exploring meaning-making: field and the ideational meta-function” This paper explores two approaches to the comparison of ideational meaning across academic fields. We will compare MacDonald’s classification of Sentence Subjects into seven sub-classes of Phenomenal and Epistemic (in her study of expert academic writing in Psychology, History and Literature) with Gosden’s model of Subject Role Domains (from his study of research articles from Physics, Chemistry and Biology with IMRD [Introduction – Methods – Results – Discussion] structures). We will consider the potential value of these approaches to our ESRC funded corpus development project, which aims to characterise genres of assessed writing produced by students in different disciplines and at different stages of university study. In particular, the models will be evaluated for robustness of insights into disciplinary groupings or differences, and the relative merits of conducting analyses of Participants that go beyond Subject roles. 1. The Research Project: The British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus – which is a collaboration between the Universities of Warwick, Reading and Oxford Brookes – is part of the project An investigation of genres of assessed writing in British Higher Education. Our aim is to provide a database for use by researchers who are investigating the nature of academic writing, and also by tutors who are designing teaching and assessment materials for their students. www.warwick.ac.uk/go/BAWE Project team members are Hilary Nesi, Sheena Gardner, Richard Forsyth and Dawn Hindle at CELTE, University of Warwick; Paul Wickens, Signe Ebeling and Maria Leedham at ICELS, Oxford Brookes University; and Paul Thompson and Alois Heuboeck at SLALS, University of Reading. BAWE@warwick.ac.uk 2. Classifica