A Research On Stance Markers In Chinese Periodical Academic Papers On Chinese Language Teaching

Stance markers are very important interpersonal communication strategies in an academic paper, which are the linguistic means adopted by the author to express their own views and ideas. With the understandings and realization of the readers, the communicative function of academic paper writing has also got more and more attention. In recent years, a large amount of researchs on the stance markers have been made home and abroad, however, most of which are English-based. Very few of them has a Chinese perspective, doing the research based on a Chinese Corpus and therefore caused a theory gap on stance markers among the Chinese academic community.In order to know the specific characteristics of stance markers in Chinese academic writing, to know how Chinese scholars make their views and findings clear and acceptable, we establish a Corpus which is made up of11Chinese periodical academic papers on Chinese language teaching.With the reference to Hyland’s model of academic interaction (2005), we analized the11pape both quantitatively and qualitatively, doing the data statistics and static depiction, then we have got a stance marker system which are basically suitable for our Chinese academic paper writing. We hope the results of this study can provide the scholars with more materials on the study of stance markers, and could.be of some help on the further research.Except for the Introduction, this paper is divided into six parts. In the introduction part, the author introduces the reasons and motivation of this study, literature review, the materials we used for research, researching methods and frame structures of the paper.With the realization of the big differences between English and Chinese and with the reference to Hyland’s research results on stance makers (2005,2008), in part1the author comes up our own understandings about the judgement standards of metadiscourse and stance markers.Part2-5are the main body of our paper. We discuss Four types of stance markers-hedges, boosters, attitude markers and self mentions with detailed examples.The last part is conclusion part, which summarizes the sections above, and reaches the conclusions. Meanwhile, the author also points out the limitations of this study and the tasks we have to do in order to complete study. After dealing with the corpus, we get a more detailed and Chinese-oriented classification of stance markers, verify the communicative function of academic papers, and find out how the four kinds of stance markers are used in Chinese periodical academic papers and so on.