基于小型语料库的模糊限制语分类方法的对比研究  

A Corpus-Based Contrastive Study of Categorization Methods of Hedges in Medical Research Articles

作　　者：贾晓凡[1] 蒋跃[1] 

机构地区：[1]西安交通大学外国语学院

出　　处：《外语艺术教育研究》2011年第3期10-14,20,共6页Educational Research on Foreign Languages and Arts

基　　金：“教育部人文社科规划项目”《英语访谈节目中模糊语言的批评话语分析》(项目批准号:10YJA740041);西安交通大学“985”重点建设学科方向——翻译研究的部分成果

摘　　要：在英语医学论文中,模糊限制语使用广泛,作用重大,但其分类方法存在一些问题。文章从国内外6种权威医学期刊中随机选择了英、汉语医学论文各3篇,建立了一个小型语料库,对常见的三种模糊限制语的分类方法进行了对比分析研究。结果显示,这三种方法既有一定的相似性,也存在很多差异及问题。首先,名称不同但分类方法一致,如Salager-Meyer方法下的作者参与型与Hyland提出的倾向于读者的模糊限制语其实是同一类型的模糊限制语。其次,Prince和Hyland的分类方法并未涵盖所有的模糊限制语,而根据Salager-Meyer的分类方法,汉语论文中明显缺失英语论文中存在的情感加强型模糊限制语;且复合型模糊限制语的概念并不清晰明确,汉语论文中的作者参与型与复合型限制语远比英文论文少。故Salager-Meyer的分类方法不适合于汉语论文中模糊限制语的分析研究。Hedges are used extensively in medical research articles. However, there have been some problems with the categorization of hedges. This study is an attempt to compare 3 commonly-used categorization methods with contrastive analysis. A corpus was established by randomly selecting 3 English medical articles and 3 Chinese medical articles from 6 well-accepted Chinese and foreign medical journals. Results of the study indicate that the 3 methods share many similarities, while they also have differences and some problems. First, the amount of the shields is significantly bigger in English medical articles than that in Chinese medical articles. Second,the hedge of author’s personal doubt and direct involvement by Salager-Meyer and reader-oriented hedges by Hyland are actually of the same type despite their different names. Third, the categorization methods by Hyland and Prince et al. could not cover all the hedges found in the 6 samples. The definition of compound hedges by Salager-Meyer is far from clear. Due to the scarcity of author’ s personal doubt and direct involvement and compound hedge and the zero rate of appearance of emotionally-charged intensifiers in Chinese medical articles, we argue that the categorization method by Salager-Meyer does not fit in the hedge analysis of Chinese medical articles. Finally we give some advice on the improvement of categorization of hedges.

关 键 词：模糊限制语 医学论文 分类方法 对比研究 

分 类 号：H030[语言文字—语言学]