汉语动词偏好在报刊中的体现以及对母语为英语的汉语学习者写作的影响
摘要
Previous studies (e.g., This phenomenon might result from the extensive use of ontological metaphor in English The purpose of the current research is twofold. It first explores whether Chinese shows verb bias while English presents noun bias by examining language use in representative newspapers. Two corpora were constructed based on news articles on COVID-19 from the US newspaper New York Times and the Chinese newspaper People's Daily. Results confirm a higher verb-to-noun ratio in Chinese news sources than in English. Additionally, this project explores whether L1 English learners of L2 Chinese show verb bias or noun bias in their L2 Chinese writing. A learner corpus was compiled from essays written by L2 Chinese learners. Results reveal a lower verb-to-noun ratio in L2 learners' writing than in the Chinese corpus based on People's Daily. Linguistic and pedagogical implications are discussed by demonstrating how explicit instruction on verb bias versus noun bias can help enhance L2 learners' awareness of the cross-linguistic difference and improve their Chinese writing.