What Should Go With This Word Here: Connecting Lexical Collocations and Rhetorical Moves in Narrative Stories

IF 3.6 1区文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-01-25 DOI:10.1093/applin/amae001

Yishi Jiang, Xiaofei Lu, Fengkai Liu, Jianxin Zhang, Tan Jin

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An emerging body of corpus-based genre analysis studies has examined the connection between different types of formulaic language and rhetorical moves in various genres of academic writing. The current study extends this body of research into the understudied genre of narrative stories and the understudied phraseological unit of lexical collocations. Specifically, we compiled a corpus of narrative stories written by expert writers, extracted a list of frequent collocations from the corpus, developed a rhetorical move framework for narrative stories, examined the distribution of rhetorical stages and moves in the corpus, and explored the connection between collocations and rhetorical moves in the corpus. The findings of our research culminated in an online interface for searching the corpus for collocations and exploring their use in sentences realizing different rhetorical stages and moves in context. We discuss the potential pedagogical value of our findings and the resulting online interface for promoting learner awareness of the connection between linguistic features and rhetorical functions in narrative stories in genre-based pedagogy.

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这个词应该搭配什么？连接叙事故事中的词汇搭配和修辞策略

以语料库为基础的体裁分析研究对各种学术写作体裁中不同类型的公式化语言与修辞动作之间的联系进行了研究。本研究将这一研究扩展到了未被充分研究的叙事故事体裁和未被充分研究的词组搭配这一短语单位。具体而言，我们编制了由专家作家撰写的叙事故事语料库，从语料库中提取了经常出现的搭配，建立了叙事故事修辞动作框架，考察了语料库中修辞阶段和修辞动作的分布，并探讨了语料库中搭配与修辞动作之间的联系。我们的研究成果最终形成了一个在线界面，用于搜索语料库中的搭配，并探索它们在实现不同修辞阶段和修辞动作的句子中的使用情况。我们将讨论我们的研究成果和由此产生的在线界面在基于体裁的教学法中提高学习者对叙事故事中语言特点和修辞功能之间联系的认识的潜在教学价值。

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Applied Linguistics LINGUISTICS-

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期刊介绍： Applied Linguistics publishes research into language with relevance to real-world problems. The journal is keen to help make connections between fields, theories, research methods, and scholarly discourses, and welcomes contributions which critically reflect on current practices in applied linguistic research. It promotes scholarly and scientific discussion of issues that unite or divide scholars in applied linguistics. It is less interested in the ad hoc solution of particular problems and more interested in the handling of problems in a principled way by reference to theoretical studies.