基于语料库的中国高级英语学习者词块使用研究

总序

acknowledgements

introduction

chapter 1 lexical chunks and language description

1.1 the conventional use of language as a long-standing and long-recognizect phenomenon

1.1.1 a de facto, long-standing and wide-spread phenomenon

1.1.2 a long recognized phenomenon

1.2 the centralization of conventional language in neo-firthian researches

1.2.1 the difference between the functionalist and mentalist paradigms

1.2.2 from meaning and function to the conventional use of language

1.2.3 how neo-firthian arguments solve the problem of productivity

1.3 lexical chunks as representing conventionality in language use

1.3.1 the nature of lexical chunks

1.3.2 features of lexical chunks

1.4 a review of the methodology development in studies of lexical chunks

1.4.1 the marginalization of phraseology and the salience approach

1.4.2 the centralization of phraseology and the statistical approach

1.4.3 altenberg, biber and the study of lexical chunks

1.5 summary

chapter 2 lexical chunks and language acquisition

2.1 a comparison

2.2 holistic language processing and fla

2.2.1 explanatory adequacy and the alternative expediency

2.2.2 holistic language processing and the route of fla

2.2.3 the role of holistic language processing in fla

2.3 lexical chunks and sla

2.3.1 differences and similarities between advanced efl learners and first language acquiring children.

2.3.2 lexical chunks and the route of sla

2.3.3 lexical chunks and the success of sla--the social-fimctional level

2.3.4 lexical chunks and the success of sla--the lexico-grammatical level

2.3.5 lexical chunks and the success of sla--extant studies

2.4 procedural vocabulary and lexical chunks

2.4.1 the conception of procedural vocabulary

2.4.2 the relationship between procedural vocabulary and lexical chunk

2.5 deviations in learners' use of lexical chunks--description and diagnosis

2.5.1 two kinds of deviations and two approaches to the diagnosis

2.5.2 the cia approach and the diagnosis of learner deviations

2.5.3 the research questions of the present research

2.6 the acquisition of lexical chunks in the classroom context

2.7 summary

chapter 3 the methodology

3.1 an nlp perspective of the study of lexical chunks

3.1.1 hybrid algorithms

3.1.2 association measures

3.1.3 statistical algorithms to decide mwu boundary

3.1.4 dispersion

3.1.5 the extraction of procedural vocabulary

3.1.6 the automatic extraction of patterns around a certain word

3.2 the methodology of the present study

3.2.1 corpora used--size, sampling and preprocessing

3.2.2 the extraction of lexical chunks: length range, frequency, dispersion and boundary determination

3.2.3 the filtering process

3.2.4 tools of lexical chunk extraction

3.2.5 annotation

3.2.6 the extraction of pv

3.2.7 word-form based lexical chunks and pos-tag sequences around pv

3.3 the research design of the present study

chapter 4 word-form based lexical chunks

4.1 the proportion issue

4.2 types and tokens of lexical chunks in different length categories

4.3 types, tokens and type/token ratio of lexical chunks in different corpora

4.4 the structure and function characteristics of lexical chunks

4.4.1 dependent clause

4.4.2 independent clause

4.4.3 single clause constituent

4.4.4 incomplete phrase

4.4.5 multiple clause constituents

4.4.6 the interaction between function and corpus

4.5 discussion and summary

appendix: complementary statistical analyses

chapter 5 pos-tag sequences around pv

5.1 procedural words in the four corpora

5.1.1 rank correlation analysis

5.1.2 distribution of content and function words

5.1.3 distribution of pv of various parts of speech

5.2 the relationship between procedural words and lexical chunks

5.2.1 the proof of the close relationship between pv and lexical chunks

5.2.2 descriptive statistics

5.3 procedural words common to the corpora under study

5.3.1 analysis of take

5.3.2 analysis of make

5.3.3 analysis of time and way

5.4 summary

appendix: complementary statistical analysis

chapter 6 major findings revisited

6.1 major findings and conclusions

6.2 limitations and prospects

6.2.1 higher degree of abstractness

6.2.2 semantic prosody and discoursal ffmctions

6.2.3 the developmental dimension

6.2.4 procedural vocabulary

references

appendix

词块集中体现了语言使用中规约性与创新性的辩证统一，词块使用特征往往提示出文本构成的机制以及学习者的语言能力特征。本书设计了二套行之有效的词块抽取和赋码方案，并将之应用于中国高级英语学习者词块使用的调查分析，从结构功能和词汇语法两个层面考察了学习者和本族语者使用词块的趋势；还对学习者和本族语者、母语不同的学习者、学习者和教材用法进行了对比分析，旨在揭示学习者用法中产生偏差的内在机理，以期对教学有所启示。
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