基于语料库对商务行动词汇搭配的研究_英语论文

A Corpus-based Study of Collocation of Business Action Words

摘要

本文采用词汇搭配理论和语料库方法，以美国当代英语语料库为工具研究商务英语行动类词汇的搭配，并从搭配的位置关系、互信息值两个方面进行分析。通过研究发现，商务英语行动类词汇在左搭配上经常和情态动词搭配；右搭配往往与商务名词有关。另外，互信息值越大，两个词的搭配强度越大，反之亦然。本研究可以为商务领域的英语学习者和教学者提供方法上的参考，另一方面也可以为将来基于语料库对其它类别的商务英语词汇搭配研究提供参考。

关键词：商务行动词汇  词汇搭配  语料库 

Abstract

The thesis uses the vocabulary collocation theory with COCA as a tool to do a corpus-based study of collocation of business English action words, which are analyzed from the perspectives of position relationship and mutual information. By studying, it is founded that on their left positions, business action words usually collocate with modal verbs. On the right, they usually collocate with noun forms of business words. What is more, the higher value of mutual information, the stronger strength of the collocation, and vice versa. It is hoped that this study can make a contribution to English learners and teachers in the business field. It can also provide reference for the future research on the other types of business English vocabulary. 

Key Words: Business Action words  Lexical Collocation  Corpus

Contents

Introduction 1

Chapter I Collocation 3

1.1 The Definition of Collocation 3

1.2 The Measurement of Collocation 5

Chapter II Researching the Collocation of Business Action Words 8

2.1 The corpus used in this research 8

2.2 Choosing business action words 8

2.3 Researching the collocation 10

Chapter III Significance of the Study 15

3.1 For Business English Learners 15

3.2 For Business English Teachers 16

Conclusion 18

References 19

Acknowledgments 20