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从使用功能看,英语已经并且将持续成为世界交流中的通用语,这是一个不争的事实。英语主要的角色是由懂英语的非本族语者在沟通中作为通用语使用。因此,英语作为通用语各层面特征研究正在成为社会语言学和语料库语言学中的热点。虽然为此研究而建立语料库是近十年的事,但是发展的速度是惊人的,成果不断涌现。本文述评这一领域的语料库建立成果,并讨论其对中国英语教学的启示。
It is an indisputable fact that English has been, and will continue to be, a lingua franca in the exchange of the world in terms of its function of use. The main role of English is to use English as a lingua franca by non-native speakers of English. Therefore, the research on the features of English as a common language is becoming a hot topic in sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics. Although the establishment of a corpus for this research is a matter of nearly ten years, the pace of development is staggering and the results are constantly emerging. This article reviews the corpus foundations in this area and discusses its implications for Chinese English teaching.