英汉学术著作前言的语类结构对比研究

基于实际语料,并在量化分析的基础上借鉴Halliday和Hasan的语类结构潜势理论(1985)对英汉学术著作中前言的语类结构潜势进行对比研究,表明两种语料中语篇结构中各成分的分布比较均匀,但都没有一个成分在语篇结构中100%出现,出现率最高的均为关于著作的内容和感谢两部分上,说明英汉两种语境下前言的部分的主要功能是一致的,这也是众多语篇能形成一个特定语类的前提.除了相似点之外,在其他成分的分布上两种语料有差距,说明了一个语类中的实际语篇结构会呈现多种多样,汉语语料中语篇结构所包含的平均成分数要多于英语语料,表明汉语的语篇结构相对于英语语料要复杂一些.

A Contrastive Study of GSP of Prefaces in English and Chinese Academic Works

In light of Halliday & Hasan's theory of Generic Structure Potential(1985),the paper makes a contrastive study of GSP of the prefaces in English and Chinese academic works based on the actual data and statistical analysis.The study shows that the distribution of the elements in both Chinese and English data is quite regular,but no elements occur in every preface.The most common elements that occur in the prefaces are Thanking and Content Introduction,which work as the most important function of prefaces of the academic works.Besides the similarities,some differences are also found,such as the irregular distribution of other elements in the data,and the relatively elaborated generic structures in Chinese data indicated by the number of average elements.