基于語料庫的中國英語專業(yè)研究生碩士論文寫作中轉折連接詞的使用研究

1、 暨南大學碩士學位論文 A Corpus-based Study of Adversative Connectors in the dissertation of Chinese English graduates 基于語料庫的中國英語專業(yè)研究生碩士論文寫作中轉折連接詞的使用研究 作者姓名： 作者姓名：徐丹 指導教師姓名及學位、職稱： 指導教師姓名及學位、職稱：宮齊 教授 學科、專業(yè)名稱： 學科、專業(yè)名稱：外國語言學及應用語言學

2、 論文提交日期： 論文提交日期：2014 年 月 號 論文答辯日期： 論文答辯日期：2014 年 5 月 20 號 答辯委員會主席： 答辯委員會主席： 論文評閱人 論文評閱人： 學位授予單位和日期： 學位授予單位和日期： 暨南大學碩士學位論文 I Abstract According to Renouf (2005), corpus linguistics represents a particular approach to l

3、inguistics, one consisting of the empirical observation and analysis of authentically-occurring text, both spoken and written. Corpus-based study has been widely applied in linguistics study to explore the collocations,

4、 syntactic structures, semantics as well as pragmatics, discourse analysis and the social cultures. The current study intends to make a corpus-based study of the adversative connectors‘ usage in two self-established corp

5、ora and tries to answer the following questions: Are there any differences (density, variety, position etc.) of the adversative connectors‘ usages between Chinese English graduates and native speakers? Is there any overu

6、se or underuse of adversative connectors in the learner corpus? Is there any misuse of adversative connectors in the learner corpus compared with those in the control corpus by native speakers? The learner corpus consist

7、s of 29 master‘s theses written by 29 English graduates from about 20 universities in China. All the authors are non-native speakers of English but they succeeded in an extremely competitive entrance examination to becom

8、e students in the master program. Meanwhile, the control corpus includes 24 master‘s theses from ProQuest-PQDT (ProQuest Dissertations &Theses), which were published during 2006 to 2013. All the appendices in each pa

9、per from both corpora were excluded in word and sentence count performed by Microsoft Word and WordSmith Tools Version 6. As far as the adversative connectors are concerned, the following twelve adversative connectors a

10、re selected: but (coordinator), while, although, whereas, rather than (subordinators), though (subordinator and conjunct), however, yet, on the other hand, nevertheless, instead, on the contrary (conjuncts). Those advers

11、ative connectors which appeared in the quotations and references were excluded during the count. Moreover, only adversative meanings of the connectors were included. That is to say, collocations like but also, nothing bu