论文分类号密 级 HO 公开 单 位 代 码 1 0 1 8 3 研 究 生 学 号 20 0 681 20 46 吉 林 大 学 硕 士 学 位 论 文 学术论文中第一人称代词的使用研究 The Use of First Person Pronouns in Research Articles 作者姓名: 邹清华 专 业: 外国语言学及应用语言学 导师姓名: 廖正刚 及 职 称: 副教授 学位类别: 文学硕士 论文起止年月 : 2007 年 2 月 至 2008 年 3 月 吉林大学硕士学位论文原创性声明 本人郑重声明: 所呈交的硕士学位论文, 是本人在指导教师的指导下, 独立进行研究工作所取得的成果。 除文中已经注明引用的内容外, 本论文不包含任何其他个人或集体已经发表或撰写过的作品成果。 对本文的研究做出重要贡献的个人和集体, 均已在文中以明确方式标明。 本人完全意识到本声明的法律结果由本人承担。 《中国优秀博硕士学位论文全文数据库》 投稿声明 研究生院: 本人同意《中国优秀博硕士学位论文全文数据库》 出版章程的内容,愿意将本人的学位论文委托研究生院向中国学术期刊 (光盘版) 电子杂志社的《中国优秀博硕士学位论文全文数据库》投稿, 希望《中国优秀博硕士学位论文全文数据库》 给予出版,并同意在 《中国博硕士学位论文评价数据库》 和 CNKI 系列数据库中使用, 同意按章程规定享受相关权益。 论文级别: ■硕士 □博士 学科专业: 外国语言学及应用语言学 论文题目: 学术论文中第一人称代词的使用研究 Th e Us e of Fi r s t Per s on Pr on ou n s i n Res ear c h Ar t i c l es 作者联系地址(邮编): 吉林大学公共外语教育学院 1 3001 2 作者联系电话: 1 38441 71 748 作者姓名 邹清华 论文分类号 HO 保密级别 公开 研究生学号 200681 2046 学位类别 文学硕士 授予学位单位 吉 林 大 学 专业名称 外国语言学 及应用语言学 培养单位 ( 院、 所、 中心)公共外语教育学院 研究方向 功能语篇分析 学习 时间 2006 年 9 月 至 2008 年 7 月 论文中文题目 学术论文中第一人称代词的使用研究 论文英文题目 The U se of Fi rst Person Pronouns i n R esearch A rti cl es 关键词( 3- 8 个)学术论文 第一人称代词 语料库 共时研究 姓 名 廖正刚 职称 副教授 导师情况 学历学位 博士在读 工作单位 吉林大学公共 外语教育学院 论文提交日 期 2008年 4月 25日答辩日 期 2008 年 5 月 20 日 是否基金资助项目否 基金类别及编号无 如已经出版, 请填写以下内 容 出 版地( 城市名、 省名) 出版者( 机构) 名称 出版日 期 出版者地址( 包括邮编) Synopsis As the study of the theories on academic writing reveals, academic articles turn out to be the most important represents of scientific research achievements, which are meant to summarize, investigate and explore the problems in scientific fields as well as to report the scientific results to the academic community. Undoubtedly, academic articles, with its unique writing pattern and requirements, differ from any other genre. It has been widely acknowledged that academic articles serve as the most important, the fairest and the most objective elements in measuring the researchers’ academic level. Academic writing, therefore, is getting more valued by scholars. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in exploring interaction in discourse. Simultaneously, some studies have exploited interaction in this specific written discourse---academic articles, and further discussions on its communicative functions have been developed. Some writers skillfully employed various kinds of linguistic strategies such as the passive voice, nominalization, hedges and personal pronouns to achieve the goal of transmitting information and get successful academic exchanges with readers. Correspondingly, personal pronouns became the focus of the research, and more importance was attached to functions of this linguistic strategy ---personal pronouns in academic articles. As all research articles carry information about the writers’ originality and individual contributions to the field, first person pronouns are likely to be powerful means for self-representation and self-promotion. Until now, however, we know little about how first person pronouns are used in academic articles as well as the functions they perform in different disciplines under different cultures. The present paper, based on previous studies, presents an empirical study of first person pronouns in academic articles across three disciplines with corpus-based contrastive analysis. Viewing the use of first person pronouns as an effective rhetorical strategy, the author explores quantitatively and qualitatively distribution of them and the functions they serve in a comparable synchronic corpus of Doctoral Dissertations written by native English scholars (NES) based at American and British universities and Doctoral Dissertations written by native Chinese scholars (NCS) based at Chinese universities. As a result, the author sets up two sub-corpora which compose the Introduction sections of ninety articles in the fields of mathematics, education and linguistics. With personal pronoun system under the interpersonal metafunction in Systemic Functional Linguistics as a theoretical framework, the aim of this paper is to investigate the frequency of use of first person pronouns and their corresponding determiners, the similarities and differences lying in the two sub-corpora across different disciplines in addition to the possible relevant reasons. The research is intended to assist researchers and students in academic writing, especially, in the writing of Introduction section more effectively and skillfully. The results reveal that significant differences are found in the distribution of first person pronouns and their determiners as well as the discourse functions they perform in the two corpora. The different results in both sub-corpora suggest that the use of first person pronouns in Dissertations is not only conditioned by the discipline to which the authors belong but also by the specific cultural context in which the research articles are produced and distributed. Besides, the analysis shows that the use of first person pronouns allows the writers to emphasize their own contributions and represent themselves to readers in order to affirm their role in the discourse. Key words: academic article; corpus; first person pronouns; synchronic study CONTENTS Chapter One Introduction.................................................................. 1 1.1 Research Background.............................................................................1 1.2 Motivation and Objectives of the Research............................................4 1.3 Organization of the Thesis......................................................................7 Chapter Two Literature Review ........................................................ 8 2.1 Introduction to Interpersonal Metafunction and Personal Pronoun System.......8 2.1.1 Metafunctions in Systemic Functional Grammar...............................8 2.1.2 Interpersonal Metafunction ................................................................9 2.1.3 Personal Pronoun System...................................................................9 2.2 Introduction to Research Articles .........................................................10 2.3 Introduction to Academic Writing........................................................12 2.4 Writer Role and Writer Identity in Academic Writing..........................13 2.5 The Use of First Personal Pronouns in Research Articles....................15 2.5.1 Previous Research on Identities behind the First Person Pronouns in RAs.....15 2.5.2 Previous Research on Discourse Functions of the First Person Pronouns in RAs ..............................................................................................................16 2.5.3 Previous Research on the Use of First Person Pronouns in RAs across Disciplines and Cultures...................................................................................17 2.6 The Concern of the Present Study........................................................18 Chapter Three Corpus and Methodology........................................ 19 3.1 Research Questions...............................................................................19 3.2 Corpus Construction.............................................................................19 3.2.1 Data Collection.................................................................................19 3.2.2 Corpus Compiling.............................................................................20 3.3 Research Instruments............................................................................21 3.4 Methods of Analysis.............................................................................21 Chapter Four Results and Discussion.............................................. 23 4.1 Research Results...................................................................................23 4.1.1 Results of First Person Pronouns in Sub-Corpus A..........................23 4.1.1.1 Distribution of First Person Pronouns across the Three Disciplines.....23 4.1.1.2 Overall Frequencies of First Person Pronouns in Sub-Corpus A....... 27 4.1.2 Results of First Person Pronouns in Sub-Corpus B..........................28 4.1.2.1 Distribution of First Person Pronouns and Their Determiners across the Three Disciplines......................................................28 4.1.2.2 Overall Frequencies of First Person Pronouns and Their Determiners in Sub-Corpus B....................................................32 4.2 Discussion.............................................................................................34 4.2.1 Contrastive Analysis of First Person Pronouns in Two Sub-Corpora..............34 4.2.1.1 Similarities.................................................................................34 4.2.1.2 Differences.................................................................................37 4.2.2 Functional Analysis of First Person Pronouns in Two Sub-Corpora............39 4.2.2.1 Functional Analysis of I and We in Sub-Corpus A....................39 4.2.2.2 Functional Analysis of 我1 and 我们1 in Sub-Corpus B ...........41 Chapter Five Conclusion................................................................. 44 5.1 Major Findings .....................................................................................44 5.2 Imp...