1、Reporting Verbs in Academic Papers by Chinese Researchers,xxx Supervisor: Dr. Faculty of International Studies, HNU March 24, 20xx,Research Motivation,A number of textbooks and guidelines for English for Academic Purposes (EAP) were introduced. But problems still remain in academic papers. Academic
2、papers attract more attention from the aspect of linguistic analysis. Certain formats or principles should be followed while Chinese researchers formulate their papers or thesis.,Introduction,To define Reporting: the attribution of propositional content to a source outside the writer of the article
3、in the current situation, and the marking of this by the presence of any of a number of signals of attribution (Thomas and Hawes 1994:129).,Three ways to report classified by Thompson (1994): quotation or direct speech, which means repeating others original words; reported speech or indirect speech,
4、 which refers to report others words indirectly; and language reports, which means to report the source of speech.,The term Reporting Verb (RV) refers to the verbs used in citations. (Thompson 1991,12(4),p365.) Classification of RVs: Denotation Evaluation, Authors such as Swales (1987) and Davies (1
5、988b) have shown how these insight s can be incorporated into EAP teaching materials. (Denotation) Mulkay (1991) has argued that an academic text must satisfy two basic premises (Evaluation),Literature Review,Many studies have investigated EFL learners and NSs difficulties with thesis/dissertation w
6、riting (Paltridge1997 a, 1997 b, 2002; Braine 1989; Canseco Shaw 1991) Studies are also carried out on the genre of thesis (Sunny & Rong 2004), or genre, frames and writing in research settings (Brian 1997:192). There has been analysis on some sections, such as acknowledgement (Hyland 2004 ), refere
7、ncing (Liu & Wu 1998), introduction (Guo 2001，Hu 2005) and discussion (Hopkins & Dudley-Evans 1988) and literature review (Shaw 1991).,On reporting verbs, Chen Ming (2002. M.A.) investigated the reporting verbs in News corpora.,On reporting , Maggie Charles (2006)investigates the construction of sta
8、nce in reporting clauses by choosing academic papers from contrasting disciplines: a social science-politics and a natural science-materials science. Jiang Yuechun (2005. M.A.) conducts a contrastive analysis on reporting and compares the different patterns in reporting in postgraduates theses by Ch
9、inese Learners of English and Native speakers of English.,Little attention is paid to the semantic prosody of reporting verbs in academic papers ,especially to the exact implications caused by RVs in certain context.,Research Questions,What features are there in thesis in terms of reporting verbs an
10、d are there any differences in academic papers by Chinese and NS? 2) What features do RVs have in term of denotation and evaluation? 3) What semantic prosodic features do RVs have while they are used in certain context? Is there any relation between the writers attitude and the use of RVs?,Data Coll
11、ection,Collect certain Papers from Internet. Two main corpora: Chinese corpus; NS corpus,国内社会科学英语论文来源： 英语专业硕士学位论文 Transactions of Chinese Nonferrous Metals Society 国外英文学术论文主要来源: Science Direct (social science &natural science),Data Analysis,1) To find out the answer to the first question concerning
12、reporting verbs, compare the reporting verbs in each corpus. Describe the overall features of RVs, including frequency in each corpus. 2) Classify RVs into two types: denotation and Evaluation. Describe the feature of each type. 3) To conduct a study in order to answer the third research question ab
13、out the semantic prosodic features of RVs used by Chinese.,An Outline,Chapter 1. Introductory Remarks1.1 Motivation for the research1.2 Research objectives and corpora used1.3 Research design and method1.4 The organization of this paper,Chapter 2. Literature Review2.1 Introduction2.2 the categories
14、of reporting speech2.3 Categorizations of reporting verbs2.3.1 Denotation2.3.2 Evaluation,Chapter 3. Theoretical Framework3.1 Thompson & Hylans Theory 3.2 Semantic Implication of RVs,Chapter 4. Corpus Data Analysis4.1 Description of the findings4.1.1 The frequency of RVs in Chinese Writer Corpus4.1.
15、2 The frequency of RVs in NE corpus 4.2 Interpretation of the findings4.2.1 RVs used as Denotation4.2.2 Evaluative RVs 4.3 Semantic prosodic features of RVs,Chapter 5. Pedagogical ImplicationChapter 6. Summary & Conclusion,1 Biber,D., Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan(2
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