The purpose of this study is to compare the structures of English-language titles in the two counterpart journals in economics field and whether. To this end, the corpus of 237 titles in Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) and 311 titles in Jingjixue Jikan (China Economic Quarterly) or (CEQ) are built. And all the titles are categorized into five classes: Noun Phrase, Compound, Full-sentence. Verbal Phrase, and Prepositional Phrase.More detailed investigation includes the comparison of words and expressions in the titles. The results show a sharp contrast between structure of the titles in two journals and the trend of title forms, such as the different frequency of occurrences of types or subtypes of titles. And the results provide guidance for the L2 Chinese writers compile a suitable English research article titles while publishing articles in journals in either domestic or international journals.%本文探讨了经济学类两本期刊的英语论文标题的句法结构以及2004至2008年的演变趋势.为此,建立了一个含有548个标题的语料库.本文采取的方法是将标题划分为五类:名词词组型,复合型,句子型,动词词组型以及介词词组型.并且进一步分析了名词词组型,复合型标题的内部结构.研究结果表明,两本期刊英语论文标题存在一定的差异性.本研究的意义在于为经济学同行撰写英语论文标题提供参考.
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