Abstract
Abstract is responsible for introducing research, attracting readers and other multiple functions, and has its own unique characteristics of discourse construction. Through objective analysis of the characteristics of discourse construction in abstracts published by Chinese and foreign scholars in international English journals, the accuracy of the expression of the articles can be increased. The author builds his own corpus and makes a contrastive analysis of the frequency, types and distribution of fuzzy restrictive language in each step of English abstracts in Chinese and foreign journals, and summarizes the unique short language types and textual functions of each step. The results show that the distribution trend of hedges in the fourth step of English abstracts in Chinese and foreign journals is generally the same, but there are significant differences in the types of use and the frequency of occurrence. Therefore, in English abstract writing, Chinese authors should properly use various types of rhetorical devices to enhance the diversity of language expression, so as to better obtain the recognition of readers.
Highlights
With the internationalization of Chinese science and technology and the increase of academic www.macrothink.org/ijl2020, Vol 12, No 5 exchanges at home and abroad, more and more scholars publish British academic papers in foreign academic journals, and many kinds of English academic journals have been founded in China, especially the start of DEAP (Database of English for Academic purposes) academic English corpus construction project, which has promoted the academic development of domestic scholars and scholars' attention to academic English corpus
Most of the studies on English academic papers at home and abroad are the study of microcosmic language use and characteristics, and there are few studies from the macro discourse level, not to mention the contrastive study of discourse construction features of English academic journal papers from the perspective of functional grammar and textual contrastion. as for the systematic quantitative contrastive study based on corpus at the textual level of Chinese and foreign English academic journal papers, there are few systematic quantitative contrastive studies based on corpus at the discourse level of Chinese and foreign English academic journals
The significance of this study is reflected in the following aspects: guided by the theory of systemic functional linguistics and genre analysis, through quantitative and qualitative analysis, this paper finds out the similarities and differences between Chinese and foreign academic papers and the reasons for the differences, and points out the shortcomings of Chinese scholars' journals, so it can guide the English academic writing of domestic scholars and help them to publish academic papers in important foreign journals
Summary
With the internationalization of Chinese science and technology and the increase of academic www.macrothink.org/ijl2020, Vol 12, No 5 exchanges at home and abroad, more and more scholars publish British academic papers in foreign academic journals, and many kinds of English academic journals have been founded in China, especially the start of DEAP (Database of English for Academic purposes) academic English corpus construction project, which has promoted the academic development of domestic scholars and scholars' attention to academic English corpus. Whether an academic thesis can be published in important journals at home and abroad, whether it can be recognized by its peers in the industry, in addition to the core research results shown in the paper itself, whether the writing level of academic papers can be recognized by international journals can not be ignored. Scholars at home and abroad have done some research on the abstracts and introductions of English academic papers from different aspects, most of them are based on a small number of corpus, so the credibility is low, because there is no corpus of Chinese English academic papers in China at present. It is helpful to construct the internationalization of Chinese English academic thesis writing and improve the level of Chinese English academic thesis
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