中美企业致股东信语域特征的多维分析  

A Multi-dimensional Analysis of Register Features of Letters to Shareholders by Chinese and American Enterprises

作　　者：胡春雨 谭金琳 HU Chunyu;TAN Jinlin

机构地区：[1]广东外语外贸大学外国语言学及应用语言学研究中心,广东广州510420 [2]深圳市大疆创新科技有限公司市场销售部,广东深圳518101

出　　处：《外语与外语教学》2020年第6期66-75,149,共11页Foreign Languages and Their Teaching

基　　金：教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地资助项目“基于语料库的中国文化英语表述研究”(项目编号:13JJD740005);广东省哲学社会科学规划项目“批评隐喻分析视域下的中美企业话语对比研究”(项目编号GD20CWY17)的研究成果。

摘　　要：致股东信是企业与股东进行沟通的重要渠道。本研究运用多维分析法,对中美企业致股东信的语域特征进行对比分析。研究发现:1)尽管中美企业致股东信存在相似性且都属于信息性强的正式说明性语域,但在5个话语功能维度上存在显著差异;与美国企业相比,中国企业的叙述性、指称明晰性及信息抽象性较强,而交互性和即席信息组织精细度较弱。2)中美企业致股东信的功能维度特征差异表现在45类语言特征共现频率上。3)致股东信自身的交际意图、中美两国社会文化权利距离的高低、中美企业文化差异、中美致股东信作者英语水平不一,是导致中美企业致股东信语域特征异同的原因。本研究对中国企业英文致股东信的撰写或翻译具有一定启示作用。Letters to shareholders are one of the important ways for enterprises to communicate with shareholders.This article presents a multidimensional analysis of the register features of letters to shareholders by Chinese and American enterprises.The results show that 1) while Chinese and American letters to shareholders share some common features,both belonging to the informationintensive learned exposition text type,there are significant differences between them on five dimensions, i.e.,Chinese letters are more narrative and informative,but less interactive,less dependent on the context of the discourse,with a lower online informational elaboration;2) The differences of the multi-dimensional functional features between Chinese and American letters are attributed to differences in the co-occurrence frequency of 45 linguistic features;3) The observed similarities and differences can be interpreted with respect to communicative functions of letters to shareholders,differences in power distance of two countries,corporate culture of Chinese and American enterprises as well as the language proficiency of the authors.This study provides more objective and pertinent suggestions for Chinese enterprises in the crafting and translation of letters to shareholders.

关 键 词：语料库 致股东信 语域特征 多维分析 

分 类 号：H0[语言文字—语言学]