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1、硕士学位论文Toanswertheabovequestions,theauthortakesthreestepsinthecorpusanalysis:first,carefullycodthemetadiscoursedevicesinthetexts;second,theoccurrencesofeachmetadiscoursedevicesarecountedinChineseandEnglishdisasternewsrespectively;third,thecorporaareprocessedbycalc
2、ulatingthegrosstotalsofthemetadiscoursedevices.Andfinally,thestatisticalresultsarepresented.StatisticalfindingsshowthatbothChineseandEnglishdisasternewsusemoreinteractiveresourcesthaninteractionalresources;transitions,evidentials,hedges,boostersandframemarkersare
3、amongthetopefivemetadiscoureitems;endophoricmarkersareseldomusedinthetwogroupsofcorpora.However,therealsoexistdifferencesintheuseofmetadiscourseitemsintwogroupsofcorpora.TheEnglishnewsreportersusedconsiderablymore(nearlytwice)metadiscoursedevicesthantheChinesenew
4、sreporters.Althoughtheevidentialsandtransitionsareboththemosttwofrequentlyusedcategories;inChinesecorpus,evidentialstakesthefirstplaceandtransitionstakesthesecondplace,whileinEnglishcorpus,transitionstakesthefirstplaceandevidentialstakesthesecondplace.Self-mentio
5、nsareusedinlowfrequencyinEnglishcorpus,whileinChinesecorpus;theself-mentionsarenotusedatall.Withsuchsimilaritiesanddifferencesisconcerned,thisthesisarguesthatthepossiblecausesmightbegenre,cultureandwriter’snewsperspectiveaspects.Thevalueofthestudycontainsthreepar
6、ts:first,itoffersusanewperspectivefromthemetadiscourseusetoreadthedisasternews;second,itoffersthemetadisocurseresearchers,especiallythoseworkingoncontrastiveanalysisbetweentwolanguagesandnewsreportersmorerelativematerialsanddatafortheirstudy;third,althoughobjecti
7、vityisthekeypointofnewsreports,thestudyfindsthatitisthewriterwhodecideswhattoreportandwhatnot,andhowtoreportwhenconveyingtheinformationwhichinvolvesthegenre,thewriter’sculturebackgroundandnewsperspective.Attheendofthedissertation,limitationsandsuggestionsforthefu
8、turestudyarepresented.Keywords:metadiscourse,disasternews,contrastiveanalysis,similarities,differences.2AContrastiveAnalysisofMetadiscourseinChineseandEnglishD