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长而复杂的名词词组是学术语篇的重要特征。本研究考查来自英汉两种语言文化背景的作者在名词词组上的使用特点。在对中国作者与英语为母语的作者所写的经济学文章进行对比之后发现,中文为母语的作者过多使用了前置名词修饰语;从语义功能上看,话题类修饰语得到了迁移,由此造成了概念复杂性的加大和阅读的困难。对英语教学的启示是,应该防止过长的前置修饰成分,重视关系从句在学术文体中的作用。本研究同时认为中国作者的这种名词词组的配置模式受到中文构词特征的影响。
Long and complex noun phrases are an important feature of academic discourse. This research examines the use of nouns and phrases by writers from both English and Chinese cultural backgrounds. After comparing the economic articles written by Chinese authors and English-speaking authors, it is found that Chinese-native authors make excessive use of the prepositional noun modifiers. From the perspective of semantic function, topic-based modifiers have been migrated, As a result, the conceptual complexity and difficulty of reading are increased. The enlightenment to English teaching is that we should prevent too much pre-modification ingredients and attach importance to the role of relational clauses in academic style. In the meantime, this study also considers that the Chinese author’s collocation pattern of such a noun phrase is influenced by Chinese word formation.