基于语料库的英语新闻报道时态使用研究

　　本书运用Fleischman等人的时态叙事理论，提出时态分析三维框架，同时采用语料库的方法，基于自建《纽约时报》新闻报道语料库，对英语新闻报道中的时态使用状况进行了深入而细致的定量定性研究，发现了新闻报道中时态的使用特征和功能，为观察新闻类文本的时态使用提供了不同的视角。本研究显示，时态的功能与动词类型、时态所处文本位置密不可分，时态不仅局限于指涉时间，而且发挥重要的语篇和元语言功能。时态使用的新闻文体特征分析，为研究时态与动词类型的关系、时态聚类以及时态的语篇功能尝试了新的思路。

　　张立英，上海交通大学英语语言学及应用语言学专业博士研究生，主攻语料库语言学，2014年获得博士学位。之后在解放军外国语学院从事博士后研究。现于解放军外国语学院英语系任教。研究方向为语料库语言学、认知语言学，参与过多个国家级或军队级科研项目，发表论文10余篇。

Chapter1 Introduction ········································································11.1 Background of the research ···················································11.2 Purpose and significance of the research ····································31.3 Data and methodology ·························································61.4 Organization of the book ······················································9Chapter 2 Literature Review ·······························································112.1 The study of tense in narrative ···············································112.2 Studies of tense in media discourse and in corpus linguistics ···········222.3 Reflections on previous studies ··············································24Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework ························································273.1 Fleischman’s theory of tense-aspect in narrative ·························273.2 Labov and Waletzky’s narrative model and Bell’s model structurefor news text ·········313.3 A three-dimensional framework for tense analysis ·······················34Chapter 4 Tense Use on the Three Planes ···············································414.1 Tense-position plane—Textual distribution of the tenses ················424.2 Tense-verb plane—Verbs associated with the three tenses ···············474.3 Verb-position plane—Textual distribution of verb categories ···········624.4 Tense, position and verb categories ·········································67Chapter 5 Tense Patterns ····································································925.1 Patterns of the present tense—Distribution and functions ················925.2 Present perfect patterns—Distribution and functions ··················1075.3 Consecutive use of present perfect and its functions in news report·········120Chapter 6 Textual, Expressive and Metalinguistic Functions of Tense ···········1326.1 Properties of tense-verb construction ·····································1326.2 Textual function of tenses ··················································1376.3 Expressive function of tenses ··············································1416.4 Metalinguistic function of tenses ··········································1436.5 The functions of tense and modern journalism ·························145Chapter 7 Conclusion ·······································································1477.1 Summary of the findings ···················································1477.2 Conclusion ···································································1507.3 Limitations and suggestions for further study ···························153Bibliography ·····················································································156Appendix A Verbs associated with the present tense ·································169Appendix B Verbs associated with the past tense ·····································177Appendix C Verbs associated with the present perfect ·······························185Appendix D Analysis of News Samples ··················································1931 Analysis of Sample News 1 ················································1942 Analysis of Sample News 2 ················································198Appendix E Sample News Text 1 ·························································204Appendix F Sample News Text 2 ·························································208Appendix G Sample News Text 3 ·························································211