英语专业学生写作中分裂句的使用特征——趋易性、狭隘性与规避性

本文借助语料库手段比较了中国英语专业学生和英国大学本科生写作中it分裂句、wh分裂句和倒装wh分裂句的使用情况,梳理了相对于本族语者而言中国英语专业学生写作中分裂句使用的总体特点,同时分析其可能成因。研究结果显示,中国学生与本族语者在分裂句使用上既有一致性又有差异性,且除简单的过度使用或使用不足的差异之外,中国学生英语写作中分裂句的使用还同时具有趋易性、狭隘性与规避性三重特点。

Characteristics of the Use of Cleft Sentences in English Majors′ Compositions

The study reported in this paper is a corpus-based study in which comparisons are made on it-clefts,wh-clefts and reversed wh-clefts in the writings of Chinese college students and those of their British counterparts.It is intended to investigate into the characteristics of the use of cleft sentences in Chinese English majors′ writings and the factors that may possibly contribute to these features.The findings show that similarities and disparities are both found in cleft use between the two groups of writers,and the distinctions should not simply be labeled as "over-use" or "under-use",for features like reductionism,parochialism and avoidance in Chinese students′ use of cleft sentences are also revealed through deeper analysis.