A Microanalysis of Topics in Linguistic Projects Funded by National Social Science Foundation and Humanities and Social Science Foundation of the Ministry of Education in 2018

This paper gives the quantitative statistics and qualitative analysis of topics in linguistic projects funded by National Social Science and Humanities and Social Science of the Ministry of Education in 2018 from micro-aspects. The main concern is the key words, high frequency words, sentence length and structures in projects’ topics. The study finds that National Social Science attached much importance to the classical and traditional research, different from that of Ministry of Education which is interested in some new emergence. However, the mean sentence length of these two types of projects’ topics has no significant difference. Finally, some possible suggestions are given according to the analysis of two common sentence structures in writing topics.