英语语用学论文标题的形式特点——以国际语用学会会刊《语用学报》为例

近年来对标题的语言学研究表明,一般英语学术论文的标题较多使用双项分隔式名词短语。文章考察这一现象在英语语用学论文标题中的具体表现。文章以国际语用学会的会刊《语用学报》在1995—2009年这15年间发表的1212个用英语写成的语用学论文的标题为样本,对其进行了穷尽性的分类和统计,结果表明：在共时层面上,双项式的英语语用学论文标题的结构关系趋于淡化（并列成分之间只用冒号等隔开,甚至无任何标点符号分隔而直接并置）;语法形式趋于简化（绝大多数为短语并置,句子所占的比例很小）。在历时层面上,双项式标题的相对比例呈稳中有升的趋势。

Formal Features of the Titles of Research Papers on Pragmatics: The Case Study of Journal of Pragmatics

Previous study on the titles of general academic English research papers has shown that two-part titles are frequently used in such papers. This paper endeavors to explore how these titles are used in the titles of research papers on English pragmatics. Firstly, an exhaustive classification and statistics of 1212 titles selected from the Journal of Pragmatics published from 1995 to 2009. After all these titles are examined, it is first found that synchronically the structure of the two-item titles in question is simplified （the two items are separated by punctuations such as colon and semicolon, or just aligned together without any punctuation）. Secondly, the grammatical forms of the titles tend to be simplified （most of the titles consist of juxtaposed phrases while only a tiny proportion of them comprise full sentences）. Diachronically, the proportion of two-item titles is shown to be increasing steadily over the years.