Exploring linguistic features of Academic Chinese through word and punctuation frequencies:Based on a comparative study of academic papers and newspapers
In this study,we take General Purpose Written Language,which is the closest to Academic Chinese stylistically,as a reference,and employ a corpus-driven research paradigm to identify the linguistic features distinguishing Academic Chinese from General Purpose Written Language.By analyzing significant differences in word and punctuation frequencies between a self-constructed academic paper corpus and a newspaper corpus,several features of Academic Chinese are revealed:there is a higher proportion of monosyllabic words and a more formal stylistic tone compared to general written language;many high-frequency words have meanings and/or usages that differ from those of common words;attributive structure is numerous and complex;verb tense and aspect features are not frequently used;there is a frequent use of compound sentences with complex hierarchical structures and classical Chinese-style connectives;sentences are long,with high syntactic complexity;interrogative sentences are few,but there are many interrogative clauses serving as subjects or objects,with numerous alternative questions;the use of parentheses is extensive and diverse in function.
Academic ChineseGeneral Purpose Written Languageword frequencypunctuation frequencycorpus-driven
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