摘要
学术论文是科学知识传播与交流的重要途径,随着学术发表和知识转化的日益竞争,学术作者利用各种语言策略推介其研究方法与发现的意义和价值。Millar等(2019)将作者“使用夸张或赞许性语言以美化、推销、润饰或夸大其学术研究”的现象称为“修辞渲染”(rhetorical hype)。本研究自建英汉多学科学术论文历时语料库,考察修辞渲染语言标记在近50年间英汉学术语篇中频率分布与目标对象。结果表明英汉学术语篇的修辞渲染表达均呈现较大增长,特别是硬学科,不断增强学术语篇中的修辞渲染。此外,英语论文的渲染标记倾向于突出研究的创新性,而汉语论文侧重强调研究的重要性,但是却较少地推销作者以往的研究成果。本文研究结果有助于学生更好地理解学术语篇中修辞论辩的策略和机制,实现在学术写作中合理地使用修辞资源。
Research articles are important channels for scientific knowledge exchange and communication.With the increasing competition in academic publishing and knowledge transformation,writers seek to employ various linguistic strategies to promote the research methods adopted and the value of what they have found.One of the explicit ways is to use hyperbolic and promotional language to glamorise,publicize,embroider and/or exaggerate aspects of their research—a phenomenon Millar et al.(2019)refer to as“rhetorical hype”.Based on a diachronic corpus of English and Chinese research articles across disciplines,this study sets out to explore the frequency,distribution and hyped target of such a rhetorical practice used in English and Chinese academic prose in recent 50 years.The results show a significant increase in the use of rhetorical hypes,especially in hard sciences.In addition,English articles are inclined to promote the innovative value of research while Chinese texts place more stress on the research significance but less on the previous research outputs by the writers.This study contributes to the way students develop a better understanding of social persuasion in academic discourse and make appropriate choices of rhetorical resources in academic writing.
出处
《外语与外语教学》
北大核心
2023年第1期24-34,47,144,145,共14页
Foreign Languages and Their Teaching
基金
国家社科基金重点项目“英汉哲学社会科学学术话语体系对比研究”(项目编号:21AYY013)的阶段性研究成果
关键词
学术语篇
修辞渲染
学科差异
英汉对比
历时研究
academic discourse
rhetorical hypes
disciplinary variation
contrast between English and Chinese
diachronic analysis
