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A Comparative Study of Thematic Progression and Textual Cohesion in EST Abstracts by Chinese Scholars and Native English Scholars

Author: HouDan
Tutor: SunNaiLing
School: Lanzhou University of Technology
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Thematic Progression Cohesive Summary Contrast
CLC: H315
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract


Today, we live in an information technology development and dissemination of the era of extremely rapid, so rapid exchange of scientific innovation is very important. One can effectively communicate research findings is to publish scientific papers with abstracts. Technology Abstract as a separate genre discourse, is directly related to the worldwide research dissemination and exchange. Some international organizations have important information retrieval by reading non-English papers English summary to assess whether the inclusion of the scientific papers. So, write papers in English digest is the peak of academic scholars climb a key factor. The authors acknowledged how to make the results of their research in the international academic obtained dissemination and exchange? Foreign language teachers how language point of helping these scholars do? Author from Halliday functional grammar perspective, through the Chinese scholars and the language scholars English Scientific Papers abstract discourse features comparison study on the Chinese scholars published English papers need to improve. In this paper, randomly selected by the Chinese scholar wrote 30 papers in SCI journals of Chinese language scholars abstracts and written by the 30 SCI-indexed journals in English abstracts were thematic progression and discourse Cohesion research. The results show that, in the selection of thematic progression, Chinese scholars prefer to use the same thematic propulsion mode, the language scholars use more linear progression, while the cross pattern in the two groups are relatively rare in the abstract. Cohesion in the chapter on the use of Chinese scholars and scholars of the language there is a big similarity. Cohesion in the syntax, the care and the connection between the two groups were the most common summary; in Lexical Cohesion in the number of repeated measures using two sets of Chinese and foreign scholars in the summary are the most. Other Cohesive is more rare. The novelty of this paper lies in the empirical comparative study of a large number of corpus sentence in contrast to identify Chinese scholars and English scholars of the language summaries of scientific papers written by the differences and similarities, and applied linguists such as Halliday theories explain. Although the study has some limitations, but in theory, it enriches thematic progression and discourse from the perspective of convergence discourse analysis; From a practical point of view, it is better able to Chinese scholars writing scientific abstracts give some inspiration.

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