ABSTRACT

Taking a cognitive approach to genre-specific language, this corpus-based study investigated the disciplinary and paradigmatic effect on the use of a specific type of attitude markers—surprise markers—with an analytical framework informed by frame semantics. A Surprise frame was generated and then used to analyze the use of surprise markers in a 2,000,000-word corpus consisting of 320 full-length empirical research articles collected from two social sciences (applied linguistics vs. clinical psychology) cutting across two research paradigms (qualitative vs. quantitative). Results from multiple binary logistic regression analyses show that the research paradigm can reliably predict the absence or presence of five categories across four frame elements of the Surprise frame. This study not only extends the application of frame semantics to discourse analysis but also has the potential to create a new direction for research in English for academic purpose.

摘要

这项基于语料库的研究采用一种认知方法来研究特定类型的语言，研究了使用框架语义告知的分析框架对使用特定类型的态度标记（惊喜标记）的学科和范式影响。生成一个Surprise框架，然后使用该框架分析一个2,000,000字的语料库中惊喜标记的使用情况，该语料库包括从两种社会科学（应用语言学与临床心理学）收集的320篇全长的实证研究论文，涉及两个研究范式（定性与定量）。多元二元logistic回归分析的结果表明，研究范式可以可靠地预测Surprise框架的四个框架元素中是否存在五个类别。