英语论文开题报告（精选4篇）

英语论文开题报告 篇1

Function and Application of Descriptive Translation Studies

1 Introduction

The intention of this study is to explore possible advantages of Descriptive Translation Studies as in its application in translation practice and translation analysis.

Since early 20th century，translation studies gradually broke away from the marginal status within other related disciplines and established itself as an empirical science. From then on，schools of thought have kept coming out and each claims its legitimacy for existence. Among these schools is Descriptive Translation Studies（DTS）。

DTS approaches translation from an empirical perspective. Translation is viewed to be a social activity having significant importance in the receiving culture and for the target community. Therefore，translation is dealt with beyond the linguistic realization and language comparison，and is incorporated in social and cultural context.

My attention was first directed to DTS by its peculiar characteristic of observation，description and explanation. The subject is whatever happens in translation practice，from the determination of prospective function of translation to the process of translator’s choice of strategies，brainstorming and the revision，to the final product making appearance in the target community.

The method of DTS is basically descriptive. The prescriptive tendency and the problem-solution pattern is abandoned. Translation phenomena are noted down. With accumulated data，some underlying truths about translation will come out which will prove to be instructive not only for theoretical probe but also for applied translation practice. I will apply this descriptive method in the case study of this thesis.

A convenient tool has been set up to conduct DTS. “Norm” is operative at every stage of description and explanation. Function，process and product and their relationship as well are skeletal structure of what constitute descriptive studies. Translation phenomena are accounted for with the help of norm.

The case taken in this thesis is the Chinese classic The Dream of Red Mansions. Two English versions translated respectively by Yang Hsien-yi and David Hawks are compared and observations are made in regard to their translation approaches.

In this regard，my observations are limited to several aspects，I hope in-depth observation and explanation will done in light of DTS.

2 Outline

2.1 Development and major concepts of DTS

In this part I will describe Holms’ basic map of DTS and the relationship between function，process and product. I will also discuss some important concepts such as pseudo-translation，multiple translation，translationese，norm etc.

2.2 Methodolgy

2.3 DTS in contrast to other theories

A contrast study will be conducted here with the objective to find the difference of DTS from other theories such as equivalence theory and the Chinese Xin Da Ya criteria. Some advantage will possibly be shown in this study.

2.4 Case study

In this part，translation of The Dream of Red Mansions（also translated as The Story of The Stone）will be under investigation in light of DTS. Translation samples to be quoted here will be selected at random.

2.5 Conclusion

based on the above elaboration of DTS and the case study，possible conclusion will be on the advantage of DTS in specific study of translation. Suggestions on further research efforts will be made also.

（Note：While the topic will remain the same，the above arrangement of contents is subject to change in the process of writing.）

英语论文开题报告 篇2

题目：A Corpus-based Study on SyntacticFeatures of Business English Correspondence

1 Introduction

1.1 Background of the Study

China plays a much more important role in world economic system along with thedevelopment of economic globalization. Economic globalization not only accelerates our country"seconomic growth， but also promotes the speed of international trade all over the world. Thereforeexcellent business communication competence becomes increasingly important as well. As one ofthe language media business English correspondence aims to link overseas and domestic economicentities， exchange information， communicate with each other and deal with business. It plays anextremely important role in the frequent international trade. It is no exaggeration to say， businessEnglish correspondence is used in every step of business activities.

The course of business English writing has almost expanded into every university curriculum.Both foreign and domestic scholars have done researches on business English correspondencefrom the perspective of lexicon， semantic fields， especially based on corpus. There are two majorlarge-scale corpora on business English. One is Nelson"s Business English Corpus (BEC for short)accounting for one million words. The other one is Poly U Business Corpora constructed by HongKong Polytechnic University. The Poly U Business Corpora are made up of three comparablecorpora of Chinese， English and Japanese business texts， the majority of which originate from thebusiness and finance sections of newspapers written in those languages， covering news and reportsfrom auditing and accounting to insurance and investments. Each of the corpora has more than onemillion words. It is accessible on line for searching key words to see a concordance taken fromPoly U Business English corpus， which is helpful to students and teachers. It is thus obviously thatbusiness English is quite important so that attracts much attention from linguistic researchers. Ithas been an overriding aim of this project to create a resource for researchers to help furtherknowledge of an area which so far has been the research topic of many scholars.

1.2 Significance of the Study

This thesis makes a relatively complete study of business English correspondence from theperspective of lexical grammar theory and syntactic theory. It takes up business Englishcorrespondence as its research topic and aims to propose some feasible strategies in businessEnglish correspondence writing and teaching. The study expected to achieve both theoretical andpractical significance as follows:

First of all， this study will introduce a new research method. Corpus provides a brand newway for the study of language. It breaks through the traditional method of intuitive experiencemethod and turns to the original analysis of natural language in order to provide a firm foundationand data support for language research in various fields. Traditional intuitive experience methodfocuses on personal experience and intuition， manual methods or introspective method whichcould acquire linguistic knowledge only from limited data of language materials. This method ofacquiring linguistic knowledge is not only inefficiency but also more subjective which inevitablyleads a effect on the accuracy of final result. However， corpus-based approach is totally different.Corpus can find the target data quickly by using computer software for scientific analysis， andovercome the limitation of traditional research on the subjectivity and one-sidedness. Thismacroscopic method can carry on a multi-level and all-rounded research on the basis of a largenumber of real data， and effectively promote the new theoretical model and research paradigm. Italso relies on computer science to achieve its powerful function in language searching， andprovides a new method in linguistic research for the majority of language researchers.

Secondly， a clear understanding of lexical grammar theory could be achieved. Language is atool for human communication which inevitably cannot do without meaning expression andunderstanding. Sinclair broke the previous rules of describing vocabulary and grammar in aseparate way. Therefore， a new point of view has been proposed. That is language should bedescribed by using the way combining vocabulary and grammar which opened up a new path forlanguage description based on a corpus. Then he proposed lexical grammar， and believed thatvocabulary and grammar are equally important， in which vocabulary is the starting point forbuilding the language model. The key aspects about the origin of lexical grammar and thewholeness of lexis and grammar will be discussed in detail in next chapter and this study is basedon the theory of lexical grammar to explore the features of business English correspondence fromlexical and syntactic levels.

Thirdly， after a relatively complete study on the business English correspondence， typicallexical and syntactic features could be worked out.

Fourthly， feasible strategies could be proposed to business English correspondence writingand teaching.

1.3 Layout of the Thesis

In this thesis， the study will do some research on business English correspondence andmanage to summarize some common syntactic features of business English correspondence basedon lexical-grammar theory and syntactic theory. This thesis is divided into the following six parts:

Chapter 1， the introduction part is an introduction concerning the theme of the thesis，including a general introduction of the background and significance of the study and theorganization of the whole thesis.

Chapter 2， a literature review is provided in this chapter， which gives out an overview of thecorpus linguistics and business English correspondence. It first introduces business Englishcorrespondence and corpus linguistics briefly， and then gives a comprehensive introduction tothem which are also discussed here for better understanding to the field that the theory will beapplied to. Relevant studies both on Corpus linguistics and business English correspondence arealso presented at the end of each part.

Chapter 3 introduces the theoretical framework which contains four main parts: principles ofbusiness English correspondence， the application in corpus linguistics， lexical grammar andsyntactic theory. Then Sinclair"s lexical grammar theory and syntactic theory will be discussed indetail. In the end of this chapter， the writer will talk about the paper"s feasibility.

Chapter 4 addresses the research methodology of the study which includes the corpus-basedquantitative and qualitative method， the corpus and instruments used in the study， the proceduresof the study both in relation to data collection and data processing and concordance.

Chapter 5 is the main part of the thesis of which lexical and syntactic features will bediscussed and analyzed in this part. Word length， sentence length， wordlist and some other wordfrequency will be listed and analyzed in detail.

Chapter 6 draws a conclusion of the thesis， which gives a summary to the whole paper.Besides the major findings of the study， it also points out the limitations and difficulties of thepresent study.

2 CONTENTS

Abstract in Chinese

Abstract in English

1 Introduction

1.1 Background of the Study

1.2 Significance of the Study

1.3 Layout of the Thesis

2 Literature Review

2.1 Studies on Business English Correspondence Abroad and at Home

2.2 Studies based on Corpus Linguistics Abroad and at Home

2.3 Summary

3 Theoretical Framework

3.1 Writing Principles of Business English Correspondence

3.2 Lexical Grammar

3.3 Syntactic Theory

4 Methodology

4.1 Corpus-Based Approach

4.2 Research Instruments

4.3 Research Procedures

4.3.1 Data Collection

4.3.2 Data Clean-up

4.3.3 Tokenization

4.3.4 Lemmatization

4.3.5 Part-of-speech Tagging

5 Results and Discussions

5.1 Syntactic Complexity Analysis

5.1.1 Analysis of Word Length and Sentence Length

5.1.2 Contrastive Analysis between Content Words and Function Words

5.1.3 Contrastive Analysis between Simple Sentence and Complex Sentence

5.2 Syntactic Pattern Analysis

5.2.1 Passive Voice

5.2.2 Interrogative Sentence

5.2.3 Subjunctive Mood

5.3 Syntactic Feature Analysis

5.3.1 Syntactic Feature of Letters of Request and Comfirmation

5.3.2 Syntactic Feature of Letters of Acceptance and Refusal

5.3.3 Syntactic Feature of Letters of Appreciation and Apology

6 Conclusion

6.1 Major Findings

6.2 Implications for the Study

6.3 Limitations

Acknowledgement

References

Appendix

Papers published in the period of Ph. M. education

进度安排

1.Collecting the related materials and designing theresearch， data analysis: Sep.1st-Dec.31st，20XX

2.Writing the first draft: Jan.1st- Feb.31st， 20XX

3.Writing the second draft:Mar. 1st- Apr. 31st，20XX

4.Writing the final draft: May. 1st- May.31st，20XX

5.Preparing for defense of the thesis: June.1st- June31st，20XX

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英语论文开题报告 篇3

Classroom Interaction And Oral English Teaching

二、研究现状：

对于课堂互动与英语口语教学之间的关系，国内的研究主要集中在：

（1）构建主义模式 它是以构建主义理论为基础的互动模式，司洪海在《构建主义理论与英语口语教学》中从对现有教学模式的“反思”入手，探讨将构建主义引入英语课堂教学的必要性、可行性及其意义和作用。卢艳春和路雅琴在《构建主义与大学英语口语课堂教学》中则分别“从构建知识观”“构建学习观”“构建教学观”入手，强调以学生为中心的主动性、构建性。

（2）角色扮演模式 徐志敏、王瑛在《大学英语课堂互动教学中角色扮演探究》中着重探讨了在角色扮演的互动教学中教师的作用，对指导教学实践具有重要的意义。而黄玉兰在《角色扮演引入英语专业口语教学中》从角色扮演是“多为互动英语口语教学模式的应用”探讨了角色扮演这一教学方法的目的、步骤和利弊等方面。

（3）以学生为中心模式 这一模式被单独研究的较少，黄影秋在《以学生为中心提高英语口语课堂教学效果的探索中》通过对学生口语课堂学习存在的问题的分析，提倡“以学生为中心”，实现教与学的“双边互动”。并提出阐述如何运用其他“教学策略提高口语的教学效果”，促进学生交际能力的提高。而刘蓉在《谈英语口语课堂互动》中则提出了互动可以创造“以学生为中心的口语课堂和整体小组作业模式”，提高口语交际能力。

（4）合作性学习模式 这种模式的研究较为普遍和盛行，它兴起于美国，在后来取得实质性的进展的一种教学理论与策略。黄艳在《合作性学习在大学英语课堂的应用》中提出了以下几种合作模式，从而的出该模式的优势所在。顾晓乐在《合作性学习与情景剧表演》中从情剧表演的角度来证明合作性学习的有效性。肖巧玲在《大学英语口语教学中的合作学习》中则通过合作学习在口语教学中的实践探究合作学习应注意的原则。而慕东文在《合作性学习的特点、目标、内容和实践策略》一文中，他用“人文精神和平等民主合作”原则，对待新的理念，指导英语口语教学。

（5）情景设置模式 它主要是根据Gillian Brown & George Yuled的语言情景对第二语言习得者的交际紧张、焦虑的研究表明口语情景设置不适当，会影响学生用目标语进行交流，进而强调进行口语教学情景设置的重要性。张舍茹、孙边旗在《英语口语教学的情景设置》中就论述我们应注意“情景互动教学中应遵循的原则”，及如何设置“英语口语教学中情景设置的形式”两个小方面局部性的探讨了情景设置这种互动模式。孙久荣在《论英语口语课的情景教学》中对情景设置这个模式从宏观上进行了分类，进而得出“开放式情景”和“封闭式情景”，为情景设置互动模式研究开辟了一个小领域。

三、研究的目的及意义：

通过对目前已经发展起来并比较成熟的几种互动模式的归纳来看：关于人际互动这种互动模式在目前的互动性研究中被单独研究还比较少，没有被当作一种独立的模式应用到英语口语课堂教学中，它更多的是被贯穿到其他几种互动模式当中。因此，本论题认为它还有进一步研究的空间。

四、研究的"理论依据和研究方法：

本论题将以教育心理学的理论为基础，以互动理论和构建主义理论为依据，运用归纳总结的方法对已有的研究进行宏观上的概述，从而引出本文论题，通过例证分析、验证人际互动模式对课堂英语口语教学效果的提高所具有的重要意义。

五、提纲：

Introduction

Chapter One Definition and Theoretical Basis of Interaction

1.1 Definition of Interaction

1.2 Theoretical Basis of Interaction

1.3 Some Main Interactive Modes in the Present Classroom

Chapter Two The Necessity And The Principles of Following InteractionTeaching Mode

2.1 The Disadvantage of Traditional Oral English Teaching Mode

2.2 The Necessity and Merit of Taking InteractionTeaching Mode

2.3 Oral English InteractionTeaching Mode Should Follow the Principles

Chapter Three Personal Interaction in the Oral English Teaching

3.1 The Relationship Between the Teacher and Students

3.2 Two Types of Personal Interaction

3.3 Classroom Climate

3.4 Classroom Size

Chapter Four The Evaluation of the Interactive Oral English Teaching Mode

4.1 Some Principles Should Follow When Evaluating

4.2 The Concept of Evaluating

4.3 The Technology of Evaluating

Conclusion

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英语论文开题报告 篇4

English Idioms and Their Cohesive Function

课题研究现状：

English idioms are an important part of the English vocabulary. The general tendencies of presentday English are towards more idiomatic usages. Halliday and Hason （1976） pointed out that there are three functions of English idioms （ideational function， interpersonal function and textual function）。 Another scholar， Fernando C. （1996）， also made valuable contributions to the understanding of idiomatic expression_r of coherent text， and in the creation of stylistic effects.

Chinese linguists like Hu Zhuanglin （1994， 1996）， Zhu Yongsheng （1995， 1996， 1997） and Zhang Delu （1994） mainly made contributions to the study of textual cohesion.

课题研究目的：

This paper is firstly intended to define English idioms and analyze the features of them. It then explores the cohesive function after careful analysis and discussion， attempting to arouse the concern of using idioms appropriately and help readers make full use of the cohesive function for communicating more concisely and idiomatically， thus more effectively.

课题研究内容：

As English idioms are much alive in everyday English， a close look at the function of idioms must be taken. This dissertation includes the following five aspects: 1. Introduction.

2. A General Study of English Idioms 2.1 The Definition of English Idioms 2.2 Features of English Idioms.

3. Cohesive Function of English Idioms 3.1 Cohesion.

3.2 Functional Categories.

3.3 Cohesive Function of Relational Idioms 3.4 Cohesive Function of Other Idioms.

4. The Cohesive Function in Terms of Syntax And Pragmatics 4.1 Syntactic Cohesion 4.2 Pragmatic Function 5. Conclusion.

课题研究计划：

January 22March 10: question posing of the research and collection of materials March 11March 25: analysis of the materials and writing of an outline.

March 26April 30: completion of the first draft and seeking supervisor’s advice May 1?June 10: refinement of the paper according to teacher’s suggestion.

June 11?June 22: finalization of the thesis based on the set requirements after the defence.

主要参考文献：

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