英语应用语言学学术论文中引述语的对比研究的中期报告.docxVIP

英语应用语言学学术论文中引述语的对比研究的中期报告 The present study aims to investigate and compare the use of reported speech in academic papers written in British English and American English. To achieve this aim, a corpus-based approach is employed, and two corpora are used: the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus and the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE). The data analysis conducted so far has revealed some interesting findings. Firstly, it seems that both British and American scholars tend to use direct reported speech more frequently than indirect reported speech. However, there are