2020年12月1日下午，大学英语教学部通过腾讯会议平台举办了在线学术讲座。本次讲座的特邀专家为英国考文垂大学教授、期刊Journal of English for Academic Purposes主编Hilary Nesi教授，讲座主题为：Bridging the “function-form gap”: the role of corpora in the rhetorical/functional analysis of academic text，大学英语教学部副主任王薇博士主持活动。
Nesi教授从语言形式与功能的关联角度，详细讲解了如何应用语料库分析学术英语文本中的意义建构和修辞功能。Nesi教授指出，在应用语料库进行学术文本分析时，不仅需要列举出目标词汇、句法、措辞等在语篇中的频率与分布、加入定性分析与判断，更重要的是探讨这样的分布如何表达说话者的交际意图、建构文本语意，并展示了多保存项将词汇语法形式与语篇功能相关联的前沿研究。
▲ Nesi教授讲解如何应用语料库分析学术英语文本中的意义建构和修辞功能
讲座中，Nesi教授还以期刊Journal of English for Academic Purposes的审稿要求和发表标准为例，介绍了高质量学术论文的三个特点：学术严谨性、学术原创性以及成果的重要性。她强调，研究方法和汇报形式的严谨性是高质量学术论文的基础与前提，而通常决定一篇论文发表成败的关键因素则是其在研究手段和理论等方面是否具有原创性，其研究结果对该研究领域能否具有重要价值及意义等。
▲ Nesi教授讲解BAWE语料库应用
本场讲座为老师们进一步开展语料库语言学、学术话语分析、学术英语等方面的研究和教学提供了前沿的视角和宝贵的建议。
主讲人简介
Hilary Nesi
Hilary Nesi is Professor in English Language at Coventry University, UK. Her research activities mostly concern the discourse of English for academic purposes, and the design and use of corpora and reference tools. She is Editor in Chief of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, and is currently lead educator for the FutureLearn MOOC ‘Understanding English Dictionaries’. She was principal investigator for the projects to create the BASE corpus of British Academic Spoken English and the BAWE corpus of British Academic Written English, and she also led the Writing for a Purpose project which produced corpus-informed academic writing materials for the British Council ‘Learn English’ website. She has published more than 100 articles and book chapters, including Genres across the Disciplines: Student writing in higher education (Cambridge University Press, 2012, co-authored with Sheena Gardner).