基于系统功能语法的英语新闻语篇中名词化的研究.doc

Contents Contents Abstract in English i Abstract in Chineseiii Introduction 1 Research Background 1 Significance of the Research 1 Outline of the Thesis 3 Literary Review and Theoretical Framework 5 The Studies of Nominalization Abroad and at Home 5 Studies of Nominalization Abroad5 Studies of Nominalization at Home11 Theoretical Framework 12 Nominalization 12 Nominalization in Grammatical Metaphor 16 Research Design 23 Research Questions 23 Data Collection 23 Data Analysis and Discussion 25 Main Functions of Nominalization 25 Nominalization to Achieve Economy 25 Nominalization to Achieve Impersonalization 25 Nominalization to Achieve Objectivity 26 Nominalization to Achieve Cohesion 27 Nominalization to Achieve Conciseness 29 Nominalization to Achieve Formality 30 Contrastive Analysis of Nominalization between Technological and Political News Discourses 32 The Percentage of Nominalization in Technological and Political News Discourses 32 Discussion of Functions of Nominalization 33 Discussion of the Possible Reasons for the Use of Nominalization 36 Intralinguistic Factors 36 1 山西师范大学学位论文 Extralinguistic Factors 39 Conclusion43 Major findings 43 Implications 44 Limitations 44 Acknowledgments 47 Bibliography49 Appendix53 2 Introduction Introduction Research Background It is known to all that news is very important in our life with the economic globalization and the development of technology and science. Nowadays, people have a variety of instruments to acquire information and communicate with the outside world. Of all these instruments, people may regard newspapers and Internet as two priorities to gain the latest information, to influence our thinking, or just to entertain ourselves. Newspaper which is one of the major forms of mass media plays a primary part in our life. News discourses being proper to news reporting in network, television and newspaper is one of the practical styles in modern English and one of the sta