基于语料库的中外学术语篇中立场副词对比研究-学科教学(英语)专业论文.docxVIP

华 华 中 科 技 大 学 硕 士 学 位 论 文 I I Abstract Stance is a very important aspect of language, as people are inevitably expressing their feelings, attitudes or value judgments when conveying propositional meanings. Many previous studies show that stance adverbial is one of the most common devices of conveying stance and stance adverb is the most common realization device of stance adverbial. There are studies conducted abroad to investigate the stance device of undergraduates. However, this kind of study is few at home and study on the stance devices in scholarly texts in China is far scarcer. Chinese academic English writing corpus and native academic English writing corpus are built for the research of this paper and the tokens of these two corpora are 373,790 and 528,040 separately. According to Xu Hongliang’s classification of stance adverbs, corpus-driven approach is used to analysis the features of frequency distribution, clause position and collocational sequence of stance adverbs used in native writers and Chinese writers academic writing. This study finds that there are some differences of the use of stance adverbs in native and Chinese academic writing. The study shows that: 1) Both native writers and Chinese writers use epistemic stance adverbs most frequently, with the attitudinal stance adverbs the least frequently, and the style-of-speaking stance adverbs in between. However, native writers substantially more frequently use stance adverbs both in overall frequency and in subcategories frequency. Native writers use more varieties of stance adverbs than Chinese writers. Chinese writers underuse and overuse some stance adverbs and they are reliant on several stance adverbs. 2) As for the clausal position distribution of stance adverbs, both native writers and Chinese writers use clause-medial position most frequently, then the clause-initial position and last the clause-finial position. However, Chinese writers use the clause-initial position more frequently tha