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A Contrastive Study of Self-Sourced Reporting Sentence Stems in English and Chinese Journal Articles
LI Zhuo-xuan, ZHANG Le
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2022.01.010
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Self-representation has been widely established as a linguistic strategy to construct authority for better acceptance in academic writing. Self-sourced reporting sentence stems refer to the recurrent pre-constructed clausal semi-fixed sequences that perform the function of elaboration of the author’s argument. The present study adopts the Idiom Principle and conducts contrastive phraseological studies on the form and functions of self-sourced reporting sentence stems using comparable and parallel corpora. The study shows that (a) there exist in journal articles bountiful self-sourced reporting sentence stems; (b) sentence stems are the integration of meaning and form, and can be regarded as units of equivalence; and (c) self-sourced reporting acts are significantly different between English and Chinese academic cultures. The findings of this study could provide suggestions for teaching of academic writing, as well as translation practices.
academic writing, translation equivalents, contrastive phraseology, sentence stem
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, January 2022, Vol. 12, No. 1, 103-109
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