虚词在人文和社科期刊论文分布的差异维度及其语言功能

Function words are one of the difficulties in teaching Chinese as a foreign language.Function words in academic Chinese written registers are frequently used, and the phenomenon is complex, but there are few related studies.The function words analyzed in this paper include conjunctions (9 subcategories), auxiliary words (24 subcategories), prepositions (18 subcategories), and functional adverbs (54 subcategories).The corpus consists of 1034 core journal papers (approximately 9.26 million words) in the domains of humanities (Chinese literature, linguistics, and philosophy) and social sciences (law, management, and sociology).The study uses the multidimensional analysis method of corpus linguistics to empirically analyze the distribution of the above 105 subcategories of function words in humanities and social science journal papers and reveals the seven dimensions of function words in the papers and language functions reflected by each dimension.More specifically, these dimensions are: continuity and deviation, establishments and assertion, narration and elegance, topicality and situation, subjectivity and generalization, differential expression, and enumeration.It provides a new perspective and sheds lights to the study of the usage of function words in Chinese academic discourse.