中国理工科大学生英语求职信中的短语特征

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2020.06.012

当代外语研究 ›› 2020, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (6): 111-120.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2020.06.012

中国理工科大学生英语求职信中的短语特征

张乐(), 刘芹()

上海理工大学,上海,200093

出版日期:2020-11-28 发布日期:2021-10-13
作者简介:张乐,博士,上海理工大学外语学院副教授。主要研究方向为语料库语言学、短语学。电子邮箱: zhangle0504@163.com;|刘芹,博士,上海理工大学外语学院教授。主要研究方向为语言测试、外语教学、语料库语言学。电子邮箱: liulinda2004@163.com
基金资助:
* 教育部人文社会科学青年基金项目“基于大型英汉学术论文语料库的对比短语学研究”(18YJC740142);2019年度上海市教委本科重点课程项目“学术英语听说”

Phraseological Features of Cover Letters written by Chinese science and engineering majors

ZHANG Le(), LIU Qin()

Online:2020-11-28 Published:2021-10-13

摘要/Abstract

摘要：

求职信是一种以自我提升为目的的商务写作体裁。本文采取语料库驱动的短语学研究方法,基于中国理工科大学生书面英语语料库,利用词组表、节点词和短语框架等3种路径,考察中国理工科大学生英语求职信中高频多词序列的形式和功能特征。研究发现,学习者能够利用大量意义明确、实施各种语篇功能、符合语步特征的半固定短语来实现求职信的交际目的。高频使用假设性表达和第一人称代词是学习者英语求职信的显著特征,但在礼貌策略的使用上与英语本族语者也存在着诸多差异。

关键词: 求职信, 语料库驱动, 短语学, 语步分析, 礼貌策略

Abstract:

Cover letters belong to an important promotional business-writing genre. This paper adopts a corpus-driven phraseological perspective, and extracts numerous multiword sequences from Chinese Science and Engineering Majors Written English Corpus by using the phrase-list approach, the node-word approach and the phrase-frame approach. The purpose is to examine formal and functional features of multi-word sequences in cover letters written by Chinese science and engineering majors. It is found that learners are generally capable of using various semi-fixed phrases with specific semantic, functional, and move features so as to achieve communicative purposes. Learner texts are characterized by the recurrency of conditional expressions and first person pronouns, revealing the differences in the use of politeness strategies across the learner and the reference corpora.

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张乐, 刘芹. 中国理工科大学生英语求职信中的短语特征[J]. 当代外语研究, 2020, 20(6): 111-120.

ZHANG Le, LIU Qin. Phraseological Features of Cover Letters written by Chinese science and engineering majors[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2020, 20(6): 111-120.

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语步	内容
语步1	说明招聘信息来源
语步2	提出申请,陈述意愿
语步3	提供支撑论据。包括: (语步3a)个人背景和经验 (语步3b)对公司的益处 (语步3c)对个人的益处
语步4	请求面试或进一步联系;恳请录用
语步5	表达感谢
语步6	表达提供其他信息的意愿

排序	短语	频数	排序	短语	频数
1	try my best to	188	16	I look forward to	99
2	give me a chance	177	17	you can give me	95
3	dear sir or madam	176	18	I think I can	94
4	I will work hard	159	19	looking forward to your	90
5	to apply for the	134	20	at the same time	88
6	I would like to	131	21	me a chance to	86
7	thank you for your	130	22	I believe I can	84
8	I will try my	120	23	I hope I can	82
9	sir or madam I	119	24	apply for the position	81
10	will try my best	119	25	to hearing from you	81
11	I am writing to	118	26	what's more I	80
12	I noticed the job	116	27	forward to hearing from	78
13	noticed the job opening	110	28	I want to be	77
14	I am interested in	102	29	will work hard and	70
15	can give me a	99	30	I am looking forward	68

EOP库		参照库
排序	短语	频数	短语	频数
1	if you give me	43	if you have any	12
2	if I get the	40	if you need any	8
3	if I can get	39	if you require any	7
4	if there is any	38	if you agree that	6
5	if I have the	36	if you need further	5
6	and if there is	36	grateful if you could	4
7	be grateful if you	34	be most grateful if	4
8	resume and if there	33	if you could consider	4
9	appreciate it if you	30	most grateful if you	4
10	if you can give	30	if you require further	4

EOP库			参照库
排序	短语框架	占文本比(%)		短语框架	占文本比(%)
1	I am *	1.30		my resume *	0.89
2	I have *	0.94		look * to	0.79
3	I can *	0.91		look forward *	0.79
4	I will *	0.74		forward to *	0.73
5	in the *	0.68		I would *	0.66
6	the * of	0.64		for the *	0.60
7	that I *	0.64		to * my	0.59
8	I * a	0.63		I * be	0.54
9	I * I	0.60		for * position	0.53
10	I * the	0.59		I am *	0.52
EOP库			参照库
排序	短语框架	占文本比(%)		短语框架	占文本比(%)
11	your company *	0.57		would * to	0.52
12	give me *	0.56		would like *	0.52
13	my * to	0.50		you for *	0.52
14	I * to	0.49		the * of	0.52
15	and I *	0.49		resume for *	0.51
16	to * for	0.48		my * for	0.49
17	I m *	0.47		I * forward	0.47
18	my best *	0.45		I look *	0.47
19	want to *	0.45		the * to	0.46
20	for the *	0.45		thank you *	0.44

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Phraseological Features of Cover Letters written by Chinese science and engineering majors

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