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英语论文开题报告参考
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BackgroundoftheStudy
Chinaplaysamuchmoreimportantroleinworldeconomicsystemalongwiththedevelopmentofeconomicglobalization.Economicglobalizationnotonlyacceleratesourcountry'seconomicgrowth,butalsopromotesthespeedofinternationaltradeallovertheworld.Thereforeexcellentbusinesscommunicationcompetencebecomesincreasinglyimportantaswell.AsoneofthelanguagemediabusinessEnglishcorrespondenceaimstolinkoverseasanddomesticeconomicentities,exchangeinformation,communicatewitheachotheranddealwithbusiness.Itplaysanextremelyimportantroleinthefrequentinternationaltrade.Itisnoexaggerationtosay,businessEnglishcorrespondenceisusedineverystepofbusinessactivities.
ThecourseofbusinessEnglishwritinghasalmostexpandedintoeveryuniversity foreignanddomesticscholarshavedoneresearchesonbusinessEnglishcorrespondencefromtheperspectiveoflexicon,semanticfields,especiallybasedoncorpus.Therearetwomajorlarge-scalecorporaonbusinessEnglish.OneisNelson'sBusinessEnglishCorpus(BECforshort)accountingforonemillionwords.TheotheroneisPolyUBusinessCorporaconstructedbyHongKongPolytechnicUniversity.ThePolyUBusinessCorporaaremadeupofthreecomparablecorporaofChinese,EnglishandJapanesebusinesstexts,themajorityofwhichoriginatefromthebusinessandfinancesectionsofnewspaperswritteninthoselanguages,coveringnewsandreportsfromauditingandaccountingtoinsuranceandinvestments.Eachofthecorporahasmorethanonemillionwords.ItisaccessibleonlineforsearchingkeywordstoseeaconcordancetakenfromPolyUBusinessEnglishcorpus,whichishelpfultostudentsandteachers.ItisthusobviouslythatbusinessEnglishisquiteimportantsothatattractsmuchattentionfromlinguisticresearchers.Ithasbeenanoverridingaimofthisprojecttocreatearesourceforresearcherstohelpfurtherknowledgeofanareawhichsofarhasbeentheresearchtopicofmanyscholars.
SignificanceoftheStudy
ThisthesismakesarelativelycompletestudyofbusinessEnglishcorrespondencefromtheperspectiveoflexicalgrammartheoryandsyntactictheory.IttakesupbusinessEnglishcorrespondenceasitsresearchtopicandaimstoproposesomefeasiblestrategiesinbusinessEnglishcorrespondencewritingandteaching.Thestudyexpectedtoachieveboththeoreticalandpracticalsignificanceasfollows:
Firstofall,thisstudywillintroduceanewresearchmethod.Corpusprovidesabrandnewwayforthestudyoflanguage.Itbreaksthroughthetraditionalmethodofintuitiveexperiencemethodandturnstotheoriginalanalysisofnaturallanguageinordertoprovideafirmfoundationanddatasupportforlanguageresearchinvariousfields.Traditionalintuitiveexperiencemethodfocusesonpersonalexperienceandintuition,manualmethodsorintrospectivemethodwhichcouldacquirelinguisticknowledgeonlyfromlimiteddataoflanguagematerials.Thismethodofacquiringlinguisticknowledgeisnotonlyinefficiencybutalsomoresubjectivewhichinevitablyleadsaeffectontheaccuracyoffinalresult.However,corpus-basedapproachistotally canfindthetargetdataquicklybyusingcomputersoftwareforscientificanalysis,andovercomethelimitationoftraditionalresearchonthesubjectivityandone-sidedness.Thismacroscopicmethodcancarryonamulti-levelandall-roundedresearchonthebasisofalargenumberofrealdata,andeffectivelypromotethenewtheoreticalmodelandresearchparadigm.Italsoreliesoncomputersciencetoachieveitspowerfulfunctioninlanguagesearching,andprovidesanewmethodinlinguisticresearchforthemajorityoflanguageresearchers.
Secondly,aclearunderstandingoflexicalgrammartheorycouldbeachieved.Languageisatoolforhumancommunicationwhichinevitablycannotdowithoutmeaningexpressionandunderstanding.Sinclairbrokethepreviousrulesofdescribingvocabularyandgrammarinaseparateway.Therefore,anewpointofviewhasbeenproposed.Thatislanguageshouldbedescribedbyusingthewaycombiningvocabularyandgrammarwhichopenedupanewpathforlanguagedescriptionbasedonacorpus.Thenheproposedlexicalgrammar,andbelievedthatvocabularyandgrammarareequallyimportant,inwhichvocabularyisthestartingpointforbuildingthelanguagemodel.ThekeyaspectsabouttheoriginoflexicalgrammarandthewholenessoflexisandgrammarwillbediscussedindetailinnextchapterandthisstudyisbasedonthetheoryoflexicalgrammartoexplorethefeaturesofbusinessEnglishcorrespondencefromlexicalandsyntacticlevels.
Thirdly,afterarelativelycompletestudyonthebusinessEnglishcorrespondence,typicallexicalandsyntacticfeaturescouldbeworkedout.
Fourthly,feasiblestrategiescouldbeproposedtobusinessEnglishcorrespondencewritingandteaching.
LayoutoftheThesis
Inthisthesis,thestudywilldosomeresearchonbusinessEnglishcorrespondenceandmanagetosummarizesomecommonsyntacticfeaturesofbusinessEnglishcorrespondencebasedonlexical-grammartheoryandsyntactictheory.Thisthesisisdividedintothefollowingsixparts:
Chapter1,theintroductionpartisanintroductionconcerningthethemeofthethesis,includingageneralintroductionofthebackgroundandsignificanceofthestudyandtheorganizationofthewholethesis.
Chapter2,aliteraturereviewisprovidedinthischapter,whichgivesoutanoverviewofthecorpuslinguisticsandbusinessEnglishcorrespondence.ItfirstintroducesbusinessEnglishcorrespondenceandcorpuslinguisticsbriefly,andthengivesacomprehensiveintroductiontothemwhicharealsodiscussedhereforbetterunderstandingtothefieldthatthetheorywillbeappliedto.RelevantstudiesbothonCorpuslinguisticsandbusinessEnglishcorrespondencearealsopresentedattheendofeachpart.
Chapter3introducesthetheoreticalframeworkwhichcontainsfourmainparts:
principlesofbusinessEnglishcorrespondence,theapplicationincorpuslinguistics,lexicalgrammarandsyntactictheory.ThenSinclair'slexicalgrammartheoryandsyntactictheorywillbediscussedindetail.Intheendofthischapter,thewriterwilltalkaboutthepaper'sfeasibility.
Chapter4addressestheresearchmethodologyofthestudywhichincludesthecorpus-basedquantitativeandqualitativemethod,thecorpusandinstrumentsusedinthestudy,theproceduresofthestudybothinrelationtodatacollectionanddataprocessingandconcordance.
Chapter5isthemainpartofthethesisofwhichlexicalandsyntacticfeatureswillbediscussedandanalyzedinthispart.Wordlength,sentencelength,wordlistandsomeotherwordfrequencywillbelistedandanalyzedindetail.
Chapter6drawsaconclusionofthethesis,whichgivesasummarytothewhole themajorfindingsofthestudy,italsopointsoutthelimitationsanddifficultiesofthepresentstudy.
AbstractinChinese
AbstractinEnglish
1Introduction
BackgroundoftheStudy
SignificanceoftheStudy
LayoutoftheThesis
2LiteratureReview
StudiesonBusinessEnglishCorrespondenceAbroadandatHome
StudiesbasedonCorpusLinguisticsAbroadandatHome
Summary
#p#分页标题#e# WritingPrinciplesofBusinessEnglishCorrespondence
LexicalGrammar
SyntacticTheory
Corpus-BasedApproach
ResearchInstruments
ResearchProcedures
DataCollection
DataClean-up
Tokenization
Lemmatization
Part-of-speechTagging
SyntacticComplexityAnalysis
AnalysisofWordLengthandSentenceLength
ContrastiveAnalysisbetweenContentWordsandFunctionWords
ContrastiveAnalysisbetweenSimpleSentenceandComplexSentence
SyntacticPatternAnalysis
PassiveVoice
InterrogativeSentence
SubjunctiveMood
SyntacticFeatureAnalysis
SyntacticFeatureofLettersofRequestandComfirmation
SyntacticFeatureofLettersofAcceptanceandRefusal
SyntacticFeatureofLettersofAppreciationandApology
MajorFindings
ImplicationsfortheStudy
Limitations
Acknowledgement
References
Appendix
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