A Contrastive Study of Hedges in Chinese and English News of G20——A Corpus Study_英语论文

摘要

随着全球化的进程不断加快,社会的不断进步,中国在世界中扮演着越来越重要的角色,G20峰会在召开,吸引力国内外媒体的报道。但是基于语料库关于G20峰会报道的模糊限制语的研究还是很少。本文采用语料库软件AntConc,定性和定量的研究语料库中模糊限制语出现的频率。我们可以发现中国的媒体在关于G20的报道多是积极和正向报道,而西方媒体对中国召开的G20和中国的态度,有正向的也有怀疑,甚至还有一些消极报道。建议之后的研究者可以结合语料库对最新的实时进行研究。

关键词：二十国峰会；模糊限制语；变动型模糊限制语；缓和型模糊限制语；频率

Contents

1. Introduction v

1.1 Background of study 1

1.2 Objective of the study 2

1.3 Significance of the study 3

2. Hedges 3

2.1 Definitions of Hedges 3

2.2 Classification of Hedges 4

2.2.1 Prince et al’s Model 4

2.2.2 Salager-Meyer’s Model 7

3. Corpus Building and Data Collection 8

3.1 The procedure of collecting news material and building corpus. 8

3.1.1 The procedure of collecting news material. 8

3.1.2 The Procedure of building corpus. 10

3.2 Data collection 10

3.2.1 Identifying hedges 10

3.2.2 Retrieval procedure 11

3.2.3 The frequency of the hedges 11

4. Data analysis and discussion 14

4.1 The frequency and percentage of hedges in data 14

4.2 The frequency and percentage of the classification of hedges 15

4.3 Similarities and differences of linguistic realizations in corpus and attitudes between the Chinese and western media. 16

4.3.1Approximators 16

4.3.2Shields 21

4.3.3 Similarities and differences between the Chinese and western media in corpus. 23

4.4 The attitudes and views from Western news media towards the G20 summit 24

5. Conclusion 25