【作者】 李芳；

【导师】 蒋平；

【作者基本信息】 南昌大学 ， 外国语言学及应用语言学， 2012， 硕士

【摘要】 毕业论文写作是对英语专业本科学生的知识应用能力、科学研究能力和语言表达能力的一次综合性考察。它是本科教学计划中重要的实践性环节。根据对有关英语专业本科毕业论文的调查研究表明,有关本科毕业论文方面的研究还比较少,而且有关研究都是从毕业论文的管理、写作及指导等方面存在的问题分析对论文质量的影响。然而,还没有人从语篇角度,特别是从结构和语义连贯性角度来研究英语专业本科毕业论文的质量。因此,本研究主要是从韩礼德和哈桑的衔接理论,以及语意连贯性角度对论文质量进行分析研究。基于以上研究目的,本文提出以下三个研究问题：(1)从衔接连贯的角度看,英语专业的本科毕业论文整体情况如何?(2)论文中出现的衔接连贯的问题主要有哪些?(3)衔接连贯的应用对英语专业本科毕业论文质量的影响?本研究选取了南昌大学英语专业2003届和2010届学生的学士学位毕业论文共40篇作为语料。通过对每一篇论文进行分析,按照韩礼德和哈桑对衔接手法的分类找出其中出现的衔接使用不当的地方,进行归类阐释。同时抓每一篇论文的宏观结构,分析文本本身,段落以及句子之间的语义连贯性。结果显示,该40篇论文整体的质量还不错,衔接连贯的问题集中出现在其中六本上,其余的问题出现的比较少。而通过对问题的归类统计,发现逻辑连接词的使用不当所占的比率最大,其次是指称、词汇衔接、省略和替代。在对文章的宏观把握上,发现段落和句子之间的衔接不紧凑所占的比率也不在少数。对此,作者对产生这些问题的原因进行了探索分析。作者认为,语言操作能力差、写作技能低、母语负迁移以及监察力度不足是造成这些失误的原因所在。同时,作者通过对产生问题的原因的分析,对外语教学、学生学习写作及学校监管部门提出了一些看法和建议,希望能对进一步提高英语专业学生本科毕业论文的质量有一定的帮助,也更希望能从根本上提高学生的语言水平,写作技能和科研能力。然而,本研究也存在着不足。第一,语料选择的局限性使得研究结果的代表性也有一定局限性。第二,作者作为一名外语学习者,对语言的掌握程度也同样有所不足,所以对语料的分析也不能做到充分、完全。作者仅希望本文能起到抛砖引玉的作用,希望有更多对功能语篇感兴趣的学者能从更多的角度对本科论文进行更加深入的探索和研究。更多还原

【Abstract】 Graduation thesis writing is a reflection of English majors’abilities of knowledge application, scientific research and language expression. It is the main practice education during the undergraduate teaching programme. My review about the studies on English majors’graduation theses indicates that studies in this respect are not sufficient. Most of the related researches reveal the major problems existing in undergraduate theses from aspects such as the management of graduation thesis writing, the process of thesis writing and teachers’guidance on thesis writing. However, no one has done research on English majors’graduation theses from the discourse perspective, especially from the point of structure and semantic coherence. Therefore, this thesis will study the general quality of English majors’graduation theses based on Halliday and Hasan’s cohesion theory, supported by semantic coherence.In view of my research, three questions are put forward:(1) What is the general situation about English majors’graduation theses from the perspective of cohesion and coherence?(2) What kind of errors in cohesion and coherence are found in their theses?(3) Does it have any connection between the application of cohesion&coherence and the quality of those theses?Then, this research chooses40English majors’ undergraduate theses of Nanchang University of2003and2010as corpus. Each thesis is analyzed to find the inappropriate use of cohesive devices, which are further sorted out and explicated. In addition, the author also analyzes the semantic coherence of each thesis and between paragraphs and sentences from the perspective of macrostructure.It was found in the present study that the general quality of those40theses is good. The problems found out are concentrated on six of those theses, others contain only a small amount of errors. The statistics shows that the inappropriate use of conjunctions takes the greatest percentage, followed by reference, lexical cohesion, ellipsis and substitution. As to the macrostructure of each thesis, the incoherent paragraphs and sentences also take a large percentage. The author explores the factors for those problems and proposes that poor language ability, lacking in writing skills, negative transfer and inadequate supervision are the main causes. Focusing on those causes, then the author gives some suggestions on ELT, students’learning of writing and school supervision department, hoping that those suggestions will take effect on improving the quality of English majors’undergraduate theses and enhancing their language competence, writing ability and research capability.However, this research also exist some deficiencies. Firstly, the limitations of the chosen corpus confine the representativeness of this research. Secondly, as a foreign language learner of English, the author’s language level is also inadequate, which confines the analysis of corpus to achieve perfectness.At last, the author hopes that this research can arouse more learners’interest to conduct research on English majors’undergraduate theses from more extensive perspectives.更多还原