声明
CONTENTS
摘要
ABSTRACT
Chapter One INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Present Study
1.2 Research Purpose
1.3 Research Methodology
1.4 Overview of the Thesis
Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Discourse and Discourse Analysis
2.1.1 Introduction to Discourse and Discourse Analysis
2.1.2 A Review of Previous Study of Discourse Analysis
2.1.3 Three New Perspectives of Discourse Analysis
2.2 Corpus Linguistics
2.2.1 Corpus and Corpora:Definition and Types
2.2.2 Introduction to Corpus Linguistics
2.2.3 Previous Studies on Corpus Linguistic Research
2.3 Corpus Linguistic Approach to Discourse Analysis
Chapter Three METHODOLOGY
3.1 Corpus-informed,Corpus-based and Corpus-driven Approaches
3.1.1 Corpus-informed Approach
3.1.2 Corpus-based Approach
3.1.3 Corpus-driven Approach
3.2 Self-constructed Corpus
3.1.1 Purpose
3.1.2 Representativeness,Structuredness and Balance
3.1.3 Size and Contents of the Corpus
3.1.4 Data Means and Sources
3.1.5 Collecting Principles in Building CHUJ (Corpus of Harvard University’s Justice with Michael Sandel)
3.1.6 Other Considerations
3.3 Analysis of the Corpus
3.3.1 Introduction to Several Widely-used Analytical Tools
3.3.2 The Analytical Software Used in This Study:AntConc3.2.1
Chapter Four ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION
4.1 Cohesion and Coherence
4.1.1 Small Words and Their Concordance in CHUJ
4.1.2 Small Words Variety and Frequency in CHUJ
4.2 Contextual Features
4.2.1 High-frequency Words of Word List in CHUJ
4.2.2 Collocations and Clusters of “Moral” in CHUJ
4.2.3 Collocations and Clusters of “Justice” in CHUJ
4.3 Interaction
4.3.1 N-Gram in CHUJ
4.3.2 Discourse Management Chunks in CHUJ
4.4 Summary
Chapter Five CONCLUSION
5.1 Main Findings
5.2 Implications
5.3 Limitations of the Present Study
REFERENCES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS