中国英语学习者语言水平与学术写作中语法隐喻使用的相关性-研究

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1、-AbstractGrammaticalmetaphorisacknowledgedasthesignoflinguisticmaturityfornativespeakers. Itsfeasibilityamongforeignlanguagelearnershasbeentestedinthisthesis.ThisthesisisastudyontherelationshipbetweenChineseEFLlearners’languageproficiency andtheirdeploymentofgrammaticalmetaphorinacademicwr

2、iting.Ahypothesiswasput forward:ChineseEFLlearners’useofgrammaticalmetaphorinacademicwritingincreaseswith theriseoftheirlanguageproficiency.Thestudyinvestigatedtheuseofgrammaticalmetaphorin totalaswellastheuseofeachkindofgrammaticalmetaphorundertheframeworkoftripartite divisionproposedbyHa

3、llidayandMartin,asinideationalmetaphor,interpersonalmetaphorand textualmetaphor.Therefore,tworesearchquestionswereanswered:1.Doestheuseof grammaticalmetaphorinChineseEFLlearners’writingrisewiththeirlanguageproficiency?2. Howdothethreekindsofgrammaticalmetaphorscorrelatewithlanguageproficie

4、ncy? Thestudywasquantitativeinnature.54EnglishmajorsinShantouUniversitywereinvolved asitssubjectsandacorpuswasbuiltupoutoftheabstractsoftheirgraduationtheses. Meanwhile,thisstudytookthesubjects’TEM-8scoresasthemeasurementoftheirlanguage proficiency,anddividedthemintothreegroupsofdifferentl

5、anguageproficiency.Instancesof grammaticalmetaphorswerequantifiedinordertodiscoverthetrendofitsdeploymentamong thethreegroups.Descriptiveanalysis,one-wayANOVAandnon-parametrictestswere ---conductedwiththehelpofSPSS17.0tofindoutthedifferencesbetweenthethreegroupsin usinggrammaticalmetaphor.

6、Thestylisticvaluesandfunctionsintext-constructionofthe instancesofgrammaticalmetaphorsusedbythesubjectswereanalyzedafterwards,inorderto findoutthepossiblereasonsofthestatisticalresults.Theresultsverifiedthehypothesisthatlanguageproficiencyhassignificantinfluenceonthe deploymentofgrammatica

7、lmetaphor,i.e.subjectsfromgroupsofhigherlanguageproficiency usedmoregrammaticalmetaphorthanthosefromgroupsoflowerlanguageproficiency. Meanwhile,differentkindsofgrammaticalmetaphorsrespondeddifferentlytothevariationof languageproficiency.Ideationalmetaphorwasdo