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题目：A Corpusbased Study on SyntacticFeatures of Business English Correspondence
1 Introduction
11 Background of the Study
China plays a much more important role in world economic system along with thedevelopment of economic globalization Economic globalization not only accelerates our country＇seconomic growth but also promotes the speed of international trade all over the world Thereforeexcellent business communication competence becomes increasingly important as well As one ofthe language media business English correspondence aims to link overseas and domestic economicentities exchange information communicate with each other and deal with business It plays anextremely important role in the frequent international trade It is no exaggeration to say businessEnglish correspondence is used in every step of business activities
The course of business English writing has almost expanded into every university curriculumBoth foreign and domestic scholars have done researches on business English correspondencefrom the perspective of lexicon semantic fields especially based on corpus There are two majorlargescale corpora on business English One is Nelson＇s Business English Corpus (BEC for short)accounting for one million words The other one is Poly U Business Corpora constructed by HongKong Polytechnic University The Poly U Business Corpora are made up of three comparablecorpora of Chinese English and Japanese business texts the majority of which originate from thebusiness and finance sections of newspapers written in those languages covering news and reportsfrom auditing and accounting to insurance and investments Each of the corpora has more than onemillion words It is accessible on line for searching key words to see a concordance taken fromPoly U Business English corpus which is helpful to students and teachers It is thus obviously thatbusiness English is quite important so that attracts much attention from linguistic researchers Ithas been an overriding aim of this project to create a resource for researchers to help furtherknowledge of an area which so far has been the research topic of many scholars
12 Significance of the Study
This thesis makes a relatively complete study of business English correspondence from theperspective of lexical grammar theory and syntactic theory It takes up business Englishcorrespondence as its research topic and aims to propose some feasible strategies in businessEnglish correspondence writing and teaching The study expected to achieve both theoretical andpractical significance as follows
First of all this study will introduce a new research method Corpus provides a brand newway for the study of language It breaks through the traditional method of intuitive experiencemethod and turns to the original analysis of natural language in order to provide a firm foundationand data support for language research in various fields Traditional intuitive experience methodfocuses on personal experience and intuition manual methods or introspective method whichcould acquire linguistic knowledge only from limited data of language materials This method ofacquiring linguistic knowledge is not only inefficiency but also more subjective which inevitablyleads a effect on the accuracy of final result However corpusbased approach is totally differentCorpus can find the target data quickly by using computer software for scientific analysis andovercome the limitation of traditional research on the subjectivity and onesidedness Thismacroscopic method can carry on a multilevel and allrounded research on the basis of a largenumber of real data and effectively promote the new theoretical model and research paradigm Italso relies on computer science to achieve its powerful function in language searching andprovides a new method in linguistic research for the majority of language researchers
Secondly a clear understanding of lexical grammar theory could be achieved Language is atool for human communication which inevitably cannot do without meaning expression andunderstanding Sinclair broke the previous rules of describing vocabulary and grammar in aseparate way Therefore a new point of view has been proposed That is language should bedescribed by using the way combining vocabulary and grammar which opened up a new path forlanguage description based on a corpus Then he proposed lexical grammar and believed thatvocabulary and grammar are equally important in which vocabulary is the starting point forbuilding the language model The key aspects about the origin of lexical grammar and thewholeness of lexis and grammar will be discussed in detail in next chapter and this study is basedon the theory of lexical grammar to explore the features of business English correspondence fromlexical and syntactic levels
Thirdly after a relatively complete study on the business English correspondence typicallexical and syntactic features could be worked out
Fourthly feasible strategies could be proposed to business English correspondence writingand teaching
13 Layout of the Thesis
In this thesis the study will do some research on business English correspondence andmanage to summarize some common syntactic features of business English correspondence basedon lexicalgrammar theory and syntactic theory This thesis is divided into the following six parts
Chapter 1 the introduction part is an introduction concerning the theme of the thesisincluding a general introduction of the background and significance of the study and theorganization of the whole thesis
Chapter 2 a literature review is provided in this chapter which gives out an overview of thecorpus linguistics and business English correspondence It first introduces business Englishcorrespondence and corpus linguistics briefly and then gives a comprehensive introduction tothem which are also discussed here for better understanding to the field that the theory will beapplied to Relevant studies both on Corpus linguistics and business English correspondence arealso presented at the end of each part
Chapter 3 introduces the theoretical framework which contains four main parts principles ofbusiness English correspondence the application in corpus linguistics lexical grammar andsyntactic theory Then Sinclair＇s lexical grammar theory and syntactic theory will be discussed indetail In the end of this chapter the writer will talk about the paper＇s feasibility
Chapter 4 addresses the research methodology of the study which includes the corpusbasedquantitative and qualitative method the corpus and instruments used in the study the proceduresof the study both in relation to data collection and data processing and concordance
Chapter 5 is the main part of the thesis of which lexical and syntactic features will bediscussed and analyzed in this part Word length sentence length wordlist and some other wordfrequency will be listed and analyzed in detail
Chapter 6 draws a conclusion of the thesis which gives a summary to the whole paperBesides the major findings of the study it also points out the limitations and difficulties of thepresent study
2 CONTENTS
Abstract in Chinese
Abstract in English
1 Introduction
11 Background of the Study
12 Significance of the Study
13 Layout of the Thesis
2 Literature Review
21 Studies on Business English Correspondence Abroad and at Home
22 Studies based on Corpus Linguistics Abroad and at Home
23 Summary
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3 Theoretical Framework
31 Writing Principles of Business English Correspondence
32 Lexical Grammar
33 Syntactic Theory
4 Methodology
41 CorpusBased Approach
42 Research Instruments
43 Research Procedures
431 Data Collection
432 Data Cleanup
433 Tokenization
434 Lemmatization
435 Partofspeech Tagging
5 Results and Discussions
51 Syntactic Complexity Analysis
511 Analysis of Word Length and Sentence Length
512 Contrastive Analysis between Content Words and Function Words
513 Contrastive Analysis between Simple Sentence and Complex Sentence
52 Syntactic Pattern Analysis
521 Passive Voice
522 Interrogative Sentence
523 Subjunctive Mood
53 Syntactic Feature Analysis
531 Syntactic Feature of Letters of Request and Comfirmation
532 Syntactic Feature of Letters of Acceptance and Refusal
533 Syntactic Feature of Letters of Appreciation and Apology
6 Conclusion
61 Major Findings
62 Implications for the Study
63 Limitations
Acknowledgement
References
Appendix
Papers published in the period of Ph M education
进度安排
1Collecting the related materials and designing theresearch data analysis Sep1stDec31st20XX
2Writing the first draft Jan1st Feb31st 20XX
3Writing the second draftMar 1st Apr 31st20XX
4Writing the final draft May 1st May31st20XX
5Preparing for defense of the thesis June1st June31st20XX
References
[1] DudleyEvansT and St JohnMJ (1998) Developments in English for Specific Purposes AMultiDisciplinary Approach[M] CambridgeCambridge University Press1
[2] CorbluthJD (1975) English or ＇Special English＇[J] English Language Teaching Journal244277286
[3] StrevensPeter (1977) New Orientations in the Teaching of English[M] OxfordOxfordUniversity Press72
[4] NelsonM (2000) A corpusbased study of Business English and Business English TeachingMaterials[D] Unpublished Ph D Thesis University of Manchester
[5]胡春雨语料库商务英语词汇研究[J]广东外语外贸学学报 2011(2)：5558
[6]胡春雨基商务英语语料库RATE搭配特征研究[J]北京第二外国语学院学报2014(02)：612
[7]陈建外贸函电中缩略词构词特征求[J]河海学学报(哲学社会科学版)2004(02)：7880
[8]江进林许家金基语料库商务英语语域特征维分析[J]外语教学研究2015(02)：225236+320
[9] PickettD(1986b)Business English Falling Between Two Styles[J] COMLON 261621
[10] Johnson C(1993) Business English StateoftheArt Article[J] Language Teaching 26201209
[11] BriegerN (1997) Teaching Business English Handbook[M] YorkYork Associates
[12]吴朋秦家慧构建商务英语学科教学知识研究框架[J]外语界2014(02)：1824+48
[13]陈坚林赵学旻关编制商务英语立体教材探讨[J]外语电化教学2003(03)：4447
[14]陈准民王立非解读高等学校商务英语专业科教学求(试行)[J]中国外语2009(04)：411+21
[15] FrancisW N (1992) Language Corpora BC In Svartvik J (ed) Directions in CorpusLinguistics Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 82 Stockholm 48 August 1991 BerlinNewYorkMouton de Gruyter17
[16] KennedyG An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics [M] Beijing Foreign Language Teachingand Research Press20001
[17]杨惠中语料库语言学导[M]海海外语教育出版社200233
[18]曹合建朱建忠陈满生基语料库商务英语研究[M]海外外语教育出版社200240
[19] Sinclair J Corpus Concordance Collocation[M] (1991) Oxford Oxford University Press
[20]胡显耀佳翻译说语法标记显化语料库研究[J]外语研究2009(05)：7279
[21]胡显耀语料库研究翻译普遍性[J]解放军外国语学院学报2005(03)：4548+81
[22]严明商务英语语料库开发应研究[M]北京中国商务出版社20018
[23]张军李文中 COLEC中动名搭配模式失误分析[J]外语教学2004(4)：3032
[24]张继东刘萍中国学生英语写作中役结构相应词化现象调查分析[J]外语研究2005(3)：3539
[25]梁茂成中国学生英语笔语中情态序列研究[J]外语教学研究(1)：5158
[26]肖忠华曹雁中外作者科技文英文摘维度语步研究[J]外语教学研究2014(02)：260272+321
[27]王惠 精加工行语料库翻译教学中应[J]中国翻译 2015(01)：5054
[28] DavidC Putting ＇Putting Verbs＇ to the Test of Corpora [A] K Aijmer B AltenbergAdvances in Corpus Linguistics [C] Beijing World Publishing Corporation2009
[29] GrantL A Corpus Comparison of the Use of I don＇t know by British and New ZealandSpeakers[J] Journal of Pragmatics2010(vol 42)
[30] ChengW 2012 Exploring Corpus Linguistics Language in Action[M] London New YorkRoutledge101
[31] SinclairJ 2004 Trust the Text Language Corpus and Discourse [M] London New YorkRoutledge 165169
[32] ChomskyN (1981) Lectures on Government and Binding[M] DordrechtForis5
[33] ChomskyN(2000c) The architecture of language[M] Nirmalangshu MukherjiBibudhendra Naraya Patnaik & Rama Kant Agihotri(ed) Oxford Oxford University Press54
[34] Douglas BiberSusan Conrad and Randi ReppenCorpus Linguistics Investigating LanguageStructure and Use[M] Cambridge University Press19984
[35] HunstonSusan (2006) Corpora in Allied Linguistics[M] CambridgeCambridge UniversityPress5
[36] CarterRMc CarthyM Grammar and Spoken Language[J] Applied Linguistics1995(vol16)
[37] LeechG(1991)The StateoftheArt in Corpus Linguistics in AijmerK & Altenberg B(eds) English Corpus Linguistics Studies in Honour of Jan Svartvik London and New YorkLongman10
[38]梁茂成李文中许家金语料库应教程[M]北京外语教学研究出版社201010
[39] TribbleC (1998) Genres Keywords Teaching Towards a Pedagogic Account of theLanguage of Project ProposalsTalk given at the Teaching and Learning with Corpora(TALC)ConferenceJune 1998 Oxford UK Published in BurnrardL(ed)Teachingand Language Corpora 98 Proceedings of the 1998 TALC ConferenceOxford7
[40] HallidayM A K (1994) Introduction to Functional Grammar[M] LondonArnold352[41]明友试英语虚拟语气语法化[J]外语学刊2007(6)：8489
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题目：A Corpusbased Study on SyntacticFeatures of Business English Correspondence
1 Introduction
11 Background of the Study
China plays a much more important role in world economic system along with thedevelopment of economic globalization Economic globalization not only accelerates our country＇seconomic growth but also promotes the speed of international trade all over the world Thereforeexcellent business communication competence becomes increasingly important as well As one ofthe language media business English correspondence aims to link overseas and domestic economicentities exchange information communicate with each other and deal with business It plays anextremely important role in the frequent international trade It is no exaggeration to say businessEnglish correspondence is used in every step of business activities
The course of business English writing has almost expanded into every university curriculumBoth foreign and domestic scholars have done researches on business English correspondencefrom the perspective of lexicon semantic fields especially based on corpus There are two majorlargescale corpora on business English One is Nelson＇s Business English Corpus (BEC for short)accounting for one million words The other one is Poly U Business Corpora constructed by HongKong Polytechnic University The Poly U Business Corpora are made up of three comparablecorpora of Chinese English and Japanese business texts the majority of which originate from thebusiness and finance sections of newspapers written in those languages covering news and reportsfrom auditing and accounting to insurance and investments Each of the corpora has more than onemillion words It is accessible on line for searching key words to see a concordance taken fromPoly U Business English corpus which is helpful to students and teachers It is thus obviously thatbusiness English is quite important so that attracts much attention from linguistic researchers Ithas been an overriding aim of this project to create a resource for researchers to help furtherknowledge of an area which so far has been the research topic of many scholars
12 Significance of the Study
This thesis makes a relatively complete study of business English correspondence from theperspective of lexical grammar theory and syntactic theory It takes up business Englishcorrespondence as its research topic and aims to propose some feasible strategies in businessEnglish correspondence writing and teaching The study expected to achieve both theoretical andpractical significance as follows
First of all this study will introduce a new research method Corpus provides a brand newway for the study of language It breaks through the traditional method of intuitive experiencemethod and turns to the original analysis of natural language in order to provide a firm foundationand data support for language research in various fields Traditional intuitive experience methodfocuses on personal experience and intuition manual methods or introspective method whichcould acquire linguistic knowledge only from limited data of language materials This method ofacquiring linguistic knowledge is not only inefficiency but also more subjective which inevitablyleads a effect on the accuracy of final result However corpusbased approach is totally differentCorpus can find the target data quickly by using computer software for scientific analysis andovercome the limitation of traditional research on the subjectivity and onesidedness Thismacroscopic method can carry on a multilevel and allrounded research on the basis of a largenumber of real data and effectively promote the new theoretical model and research paradigm Italso relies on computer science to achieve its powerful function in language searching andprovides a new method in linguistic research for the majority of language researchers
Secondly a clear understanding of lexical grammar theory could be achieved Language is atool for human communication which inevitably cannot do without meaning expression andunderstanding Sinclair broke the previous rules of describing vocabulary and grammar in aseparate way Therefore a new point of view has been proposed That is language should bedescribed by using the way combining vocabulary and grammar which opened up a new path forlanguage description based on a corpus Then he proposed lexical grammar and believed thatvocabulary and grammar are equally important in which vocabulary is the starting point forbuilding the language model The key aspects about the origin of lexical grammar and thewholeness of lexis and grammar will be discussed in detail in next chapter and this study is basedon the theory of lexical grammar to explore the features of business English correspondence fromlexical and syntactic levels
Thirdly after a relatively complete study on the business English correspondence typicallexical and syntactic features could be worked out
Fourthly feasible strategies could be proposed to business English correspondence writingand teaching
13 Layout of the Thesis
In this thesis the study will do some research on business English correspondence andmanage to summarize some common syntactic features of business English correspondence basedon lexicalgrammar theory and syntactic theory This thesis is divided into the following six parts
Chapter 1 the introduction part is an introduction concerning the theme of the thesisincluding a general introduction of the background and significance of the study and theorganization of the whole thesis
Chapter 2 a literature review is provided in this chapter which gives out an overview of thecorpus linguistics and business English correspondence It first introduces business Englishcorrespondence and corpus linguistics briefly and then gives a comprehensive introduction tothem which are also discussed here for better understanding to the field that the theory will beapplied to Relevant studies both on Corpus linguistics and business English correspondence arealso presented at the end of each part
Chapter 3 introduces the theoretical framework which contains four main parts principles ofbusiness English correspondence the application in corpus linguistics lexical grammar andsyntactic theory Then Sinclair＇s lexical grammar theory and syntactic theory will be discussed indetail In the end of this chapter the writer will talk about the paper＇s feasibility
Chapter 4 addresses the research methodology of the study which includes the corpusbasedquantitative and qualitative method the corpus and instruments used in the study the proceduresof the study both in relation to data collection and data processing and concordance
Chapter 5 is the main part of the thesis of which lexical and syntactic features will bediscussed and analyzed in this part Word length sentence length wordlist and some other wordfrequency will be listed and analyzed in detail
Chapter 6 draws a conclusion of the thesis which gives a summary to the whole paperBesides the major findings of the study it also points out the limitations and difficulties of thepresent study
2 CONTENTS
Abstract in Chinese
Abstract in English
1 Introduction
11 Background of the Study
12 Significance of the Study
13 Layout of the Thesis
2 Literature Review
21 Studies on Business English Correspondence Abroad and at Home
22 Studies based on Corpus Linguistics Abroad and at Home
23 Summary
#p#分页标题#e#
3 Theoretical Framework
31 Writing Principles of Business English Correspondence
32 Lexical Grammar
33 Syntactic Theory
4 Methodology
41 CorpusBased Approach
42 Research Instruments
43 Research Procedures
431 Data Collection
432 Data Cleanup
433 Tokenization
434 Lemmatization
435 Partofspeech Tagging
5 Results and Discussions
51 Syntactic Complexity Analysis
511 Analysis of Word Length and Sentence Length
512 Contrastive Analysis between Content Words and Function Words
513 Contrastive Analysis between Simple Sentence and Complex Sentence
52 Syntactic Pattern Analysis
521 Passive Voice
522 Interrogative Sentence
523 Subjunctive Mood
53 Syntactic Feature Analysis
531 Syntactic Feature of Letters of Request and Comfirmation
532 Syntactic Feature of Letters of Acceptance and Refusal
533 Syntactic Feature of Letters of Appreciation and Apology
6 Conclusion
61 Major Findings
62 Implications for the Study
63 Limitations
Acknowledgement
References
Appendix
Papers published in the period of Ph M education
进度安排
1Collecting the related materials and designing theresearch data analysis Sep1stDec31st20XX
2Writing the first draft Jan1st Feb31st 20XX
3Writing the second draftMar 1st Apr 31st20XX
4Writing the final draft May 1st May31st20XX
5Preparing for defense of the thesis June1st June31st20XX
References
[1] DudleyEvansT and St JohnMJ (1998) Developments in English for Specific Purposes AMultiDisciplinary Approach[M] CambridgeCambridge University Press1
[2] CorbluthJD (1975) English or ＇Special English＇[J] English Language Teaching Journal244277286
[3] StrevensPeter (1977) New Orientations in the Teaching of English[M] OxfordOxfordUniversity Press72
[4] NelsonM (2000) A corpusbased study of Business English and Business English TeachingMaterials[D] Unpublished Ph D Thesis University of Manchester
[5]胡春雨语料库商务英语词汇研究[J]广东外语外贸学学报 2011(2)：5558
[6]胡春雨基商务英语语料库RATE搭配特征研究[J]北京第二外国语学院学报2014(02)：612
[7]陈建外贸函电中缩略词构词特征求[J]河海学学报(哲学社会科学版)2004(02)：7880
[8]江进林许家金基语料库商务英语语域特征维分析[J]外语教学研究2015(02)：225236+320
[9] PickettD(1986b)Business English Falling Between Two Styles[J] COMLON 261621
[10] Johnson C(1993) Business English StateoftheArt Article[J] Language Teaching 26201209
[11] BriegerN (1997) Teaching Business English Handbook[M] YorkYork Associates
[12]吴朋秦家慧构建商务英语学科教学知识研究框架[J]外语界2014(02)：1824+48
[13]陈坚林赵学旻关编制商务英语立体教材探讨[J]外语电化教学2003(03)：4447
[14]陈准民王立非解读高等学校商务英语专业科教学求(试行)[J]中国外语2009(04)：411+21
[15] FrancisW N (1992) Language Corpora BC In Svartvik J (ed) Directions in CorpusLinguistics Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 82 Stockholm 48 August 1991 BerlinNewYorkMouton de Gruyter17
[16] KennedyG An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics [M] Beijing Foreign Language Teachingand Research Press20001
[17]杨惠中语料库语言学导[M]海海外语教育出版社200233
[18]曹合建朱建忠陈满生基语料库商务英语研究[M]海外外语教育出版社200240
[19] Sinclair J Corpus Concordance Collocation[M] (1991) Oxford Oxford University Press
[20]胡显耀佳翻译说语法标记显化语料库研究[J]外语研究2009(05)：7279
[21]胡显耀语料库研究翻译普遍性[J]解放军外国语学院学报2005(03)：4548+81
[22]严明商务英语语料库开发应研究[M]北京中国商务出版社20018
[23]张军李文中 COLEC中动名搭配模式失误分析[J]外语教学2004(4)：3032
[24]张继东刘萍中国学生英语写作中役结构相应词化现象调查分析[J]外语研究2005(3)：3539
[25]梁茂成中国学生英语笔语中情态序列研究[J]外语教学研究(1)：5158
[26]肖忠华曹雁中外作者科技文英文摘维度语步研究[J]外语教学研究2014(02)：260272+321
[27]王惠 精加工行语料库翻译教学中应[J]中国翻译 2015(01)：5054
[28] DavidC Putting ＇Putting Verbs＇ to the Test of Corpora [A] K Aijmer B AltenbergAdvances in Corpus Linguistics [C] Beijing World Publishing Corporation2009
[29] GrantL A Corpus Comparison of the Use of I don＇t know by British and New ZealandSpeakers[J] Journal of Pragmatics2010(vol 42)
[30] ChengW 2012 Exploring Corpus Linguistics Language in Action[M] London New YorkRoutledge101
[31] SinclairJ 2004 Trust the Text Language Corpus and Discourse [M] London New YorkRoutledge 165169
[32] ChomskyN (1981) Lectures on Government and Binding[M] DordrechtForis5
[33] ChomskyN(2000c) The architecture of language[M] Nirmalangshu MukherjiBibudhendra Naraya Patnaik & Rama Kant Agihotri(ed) Oxford Oxford University Press54
[34] Douglas BiberSusan Conrad and Randi ReppenCorpus Linguistics Investigating LanguageStructure and Use[M] Cambridge University Press19984
[35] HunstonSusan (2006) Corpora in Allied Linguistics[M] CambridgeCambridge UniversityPress5
[36] CarterRMc CarthyM Grammar and Spoken Language[J] Applied Linguistics1995(vol16)
[37] LeechG(1991)The StateoftheArt in Corpus Linguistics in AijmerK & Altenberg B(eds) English Corpus Linguistics Studies in Honour of Jan Svartvik London and New YorkLongman10
[38]梁茂成李文中许家金语料库应教程[M]北京外语教学研究出版社201010
[39] TribbleC (1998) Genres Keywords Teaching Towards a Pedagogic Account of theLanguage of Project ProposalsTalk given at the Teaching and Learning with Corpora(TALC)ConferenceJune 1998 Oxford UK Published in BurnrardL(ed)Teachingand Language Corpora 98 Proceedings of the 1998 TALC ConferenceOxford7
[40] HallidayM A K (1994) Introduction to Functional Grammar[M] LondonArnold352[41]明友试英语虚拟语气语法化[J]外语学刊2007(6)：8489
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