【作者】 刘伟；

【导师】 杨敏；

【作者基本信息】 山东师范大学 ， 英语语言文学， 2010， 硕士

【摘要】 传统语法中的抽象名词和现代语言学中的名物化构成了英语中的抽象表达。而英语语言思维作为借用语言进行的思维及英语语言符号的内部运行机制,其最突出的特性即是抽象性。本文从具有广泛影响力的美国纽约时报中抽取40篇政治新闻文本建成小型语料库作为研究对象,旨在通过对新闻语篇中抽象表达的研究探索抽象表达的使用特点及其所体现出的英语语言思维的抽象特性,为英语抽象表达的理解和英语学习提供线索。本论文包括六章,主要内容如下:第一章介绍了本论文选题的由来及研究的意义。第二章是文献综述部分,阐述了中外各语言流派如转换生成语法,认知语言学,系统功能语法对于抽象表达特别是名物化的研究成果。另外,中外语言学家对于语言思维的研究也将在本章阐述。第三章系统介绍了抽象表达和语言思维等的相关理论,以期为之后的研究奠定理论基础。第四章介绍了小型语料库的建设过程。对文本收集的目的和标准以及文本赋码标注过程进行了说明。另外,语料库研究方法的优势在此进行了阐述,并介绍了基于语料库的研究方法和检索软件,对于如何在语料库中检索抽象表达也进行了解释。第五章对语料库检索所得数据进行了分析和讨论。首先对所得数据进行了总体说明,其次通过软件检索对英汉抽象表达的使用特点进行了总结和讨论。同时,本部分通过语料库检索到的大量相关例句阐述了抽象表达的概念指称意义及体现出的英语语言思维的抽象特性,以期达到启迪英语学习者准确理解抽象表达之目的。第六章总结本论文对于新闻文本中抽象表达的研究,提出了对以后的研究提出建议及研究的不足之处。更多还原

【Abstract】 Abstract nouns in traditional grammar and nominalization in modern linguistics constitute abstract expressions in English. While abstractness is regarded as the most prominent operating characteristics of English linguistic thinking, which is the thinking type relying on language and the operation mechanism of the linguistic symbol of English. Taking a small-scaled corpus established by 40 journalistic texts concerning political issues collected from New York Times as the object of study, the thesis aims to disclose features of abstract expressions and abstractness in English linguistic thinking embodied in abstract expressions based on the research of abstract expressions, with the purpose of providing enlightenment for the comprehension of abstract expressions and English studying.The thesis is divided into six chapters:Chapter 1 is the introduction of background and significance of the research.Chapter 2 is a review of previous literature of different linguistic schools including approaches of traditional grammarians, transformational grammarians, systemic functional grammarians, cognitive grammarians. What’s more, previous research of linguistic thinking is also included in the part.Chapter 3 gives a systematic introduction of abstract expressions, together with theories of linguistic thinking. All the introductions of theories are supposed to lay firm theoretical foundation for the following research.Chapter 4 describes the process of data collection. the purpose and criteria of data collection, together with processing of tagging. And then the author introduces a corpus-based approach and concordance tool. Respectively, corpus linguistics, advantages of corpus-based approach are reviewed here. Approaches of extracting corpus evidence are also illustrated.Chapter 5 is a general analysis of statistic features and the discussion of the results of the data. First of all, a descriptive analysis of statistic features of abstract expressions is required. Second, according to the description, features of abstract expressions are summarized and discussed through concordance software. Finally, referential significance of abstract expressions and abstractness of linguistic thinking are discussed and illustrated through abundant examples adapted from the corpus, with the purpose of offering English learners enlightenment of achieving accurate comprehension of abstract expressions.Chapter 6 concludes the whole research and points out suggestions for future study and the limitations.更多还原