A Description of Typical Phraseological Units Based on Move Analysis of Experimental Medical Research Articles

2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K23095
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: 0102:Literature, linguistics, and related fields
• Research Institution: Kobe City College of Technology
• Principal Investigator: ISHII TATSUYA 神戸市立工業高等専門学校, その他部局等, 講師 (90845603)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-08-30 – 2021-03-31
• Keywords: コーパス / ESP / 定型表現 / 副詞 / ムーブ分析 / 語連鎖

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, we described the phraseological units including adverbs and clarified the logical development in experimental medical research articles. 300 papers published in 2014 (about 1.5 million words in total) were collected as corpus data, which were divided into 12 moves (parts), three for each of the four sections of IMRD. Using the corpus analysis software CasualConc (Imao, 2019), we calculated statistically significant words for each move.We focused on adverbs and extracted the four-word grams with the adverbs. Moreover, by observing the concordance lines, we described the phraseological lists of each move and clarified the role of adverbs.

Free Research Field

コーパス言語学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

学術界における英語での論文発表の重要性が増している中、論の展開（ムーブ）ごとにまとめられた定型表現集は数少ない。そこで本研究ではムーブ（論の展開）ごとに基礎医学英語論文をコーパスデータを構築した。また論の展開がどのようにストーリーを作るかということを明らかにするために、副詞を含む定型表現を記述した。結果として、基礎医学英語論文における副詞が論理展開にとって重要な役割を果たすことが、ムーブごとに具体的な副詞を含む定型表現を示すことで明らかになった。これらの定型表現は英語論文執筆のためには必要不可欠となるであろう。