Abstract
Abstract writing and translation have always been the emphasis and difficulty in thesis writing. Discourse structures and language features of abstracts are two major elements. In this paper, a total of 101 abstracts in Progress in Polymer Science and Chemical Industry and Engineering Progress from January 2017 to December 2018 are taken as examples. Based on analysis of Move Differences, the paper describes structural characteristics and discourse features of abstracts in two top-level journals in chemical industry, reveals differences between Chinese and English abstracts to provide reference for domestic authors’ writing and translation.
Highlights
There are great differences between Chinese and western scholars in language habits and thinking modes, which are especially reflected in the paper writing by Chinese and western scholars
A total of 101 abstracts in Progress in Polymer Science and Chemical Industry and Engineering Progress from January 2017 to December 2018 are taken as examples
Compared with foreign scholars, Chinese authors use more logical conjunctions and divide long Chinese sentences into short English sentences with simple structures when translating, which should be taken as a warning
Summary
There are great differences between Chinese and western scholars in language habits and thinking modes, which are especially reflected in the paper writing by Chinese and western scholars. N. Lu searchers often write papers in Chinese and publish it in foreign journals after translation. Many scholars use different structural models to analyze the abstracts 79) thought that the structure of the abstract should include four moves: introduction-method-result-conclusion. Ge Dongmei used five moves of background-purpose-method-result-conclusion to analyze the abstract in her paper According to the abstracts of the two selected journals and the above-mentioned structural model as well as the characteristics of summary paper abstracts, the four moves of background-statement-result-conclusion best reflects the characteristics of chemical paper abstracts, so this paper mainly adopts this structural model based on the analysis of practical situations
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