A Contrastive Study of Modal Features of Participant-oriented Bundles in Conclusions of English PhD Dissertations Written by Chinese and NSE Writers

PANG Yu-tian; YANG Cai-ying

doi:10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022030026

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PANG Yu-tian, YANG Cai-ying. A Contrastive Study of Modal Features of Participant-oriented Bundles in Conclusions of English PhD Dissertations Written by Chinese and NSE Writers[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2022, 38(4): 403-411. doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022030026

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PANG Yu-tian, YANG Cai-ying. A Contrastive Study of Modal Features of Participant-oriented Bundles in Conclusions of English PhD Dissertations Written by Chinese and NSE Writers[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2022, 38(4): 403-411. doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022030026

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PANG Yu-tian, YANG Cai-ying. A Contrastive Study of Modal Features of Participant-oriented Bundles in Conclusions of English PhD Dissertations Written by Chinese and NSE Writers[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2022, 38(4): 403-411. doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022030026

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A Contrastive Study of Modal Features of Participant-oriented Bundles in Conclusions of English PhD Dissertations Written by Chinese and NSE Writers

doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022030026

College of Foreign Studies, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China

Received Date: 2022-03-07
Available Online: 2022-08-02
Publish Date: 2022-08-18

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Conveying the speaker’s attitude and stance, participant-oriented bundles are related to the modality, to realize the interpersonal interaction in the discourse enacting the relationship between the writer and the speaker and their negotiation. Based on the modality in SFL and two comparative corpora, the study applies AntConc to the contrastive study of the modal features of the participant-oriented bundles in the conclusions of Chinese and native speakers’ doctoral dissertations. It is shown that Chinese learners and natives both use modalization for the proposition statements and low and medium modal bundles for the negotiation, but the former can use some bundles of modulation to show their personal involvement in the dissertation. For metaphors of modality, Chinese learners use plenty of inclinations to enhance their personal suggestions while the natives mainly focus on the probabilistic metaphors.
- English PhD dissertations,
- participant-oriented bundles,
- modality,
- a contrastive study

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