基于语料库的英语报纸财经板块文本计量特征对比研究.pdf

Contents 摘要 I Abstract III List of FiguresVII List of Tables VIII Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Research Background 1 1.2 Research Significance and Purpose 2 1.3 Research Questions3 1.4 Structure of the Thesis 3 Chapter 2 Literature Review 5 2.1 Related Studies on Financial English Texts at Home 5 2.2 Related Studies on Financial English Texts Abroad 6 2.3 Related Studies on Corpus Linguistics 8 Chapter 3 Theoretical Basis 11 3.1 Liu’s Theory of Literature Stylistics 11 3.2 Register Analysis in ESP 13 3.3 L. R. Bahl’s Self-Organizing Model in Corpus Linguistics 16 Chapter 4 Research Materials and Research Methods 21 4.1 Research Materials and Research Tools21 4.1.1 Research Materials 21 V 4.1.2 Research Tools 25 4.2 Data Processing 26 Chapter 5 Comparative Analysis of Quantitative Features of the Financial Texts in English Newspapers28 5.1 Comparative Analysis of Lexical Features 28 5.1.1 Lexical Density 28 5.1.2 Word Frequency 29 5.1.3 The High Frequency of Monosyllable Words 35 5.2 Comparative Analysis of Grammatical Features 36 5.3 Comparative Analysis of Semantic Features 38 Chapter 6 Conclusion 47 6.1 Major Findings 47 6.2 Implications47 6.3 Limitations and Suggestions for Further Study 49 References 51 Publication Acknowledgement Statement VI List of Figures Figure 4.1 Distribution of Text Types in BNC 23 Figure 4.2 Distribution of Domain for Written Corpus Texts 24 Figure 4.3 Distribution of Newspapers Collected in EBN 25 VII List of Tables Table 5.1 Statistical Data of SEBN and BNC 29 Table 5.2 BNC Frequen