A Comparison of the Linguistic Features between English Abstracts of Chinese and Foreign Academic Journals
Gong Ling-li · Journal of Mudanjiang Normal University · 2010
Based on the self-built English abstract corpora of foreign linguistic journals, Chinese linguistic journals and Chinese non-linguistic journals, a comparison of the linguistic features was conducted between English abstracts of Chinese and foreign academic journals by employing such tools as Wordsmith, Range and SPSS. Results show that Chinese and foreign journal abstracts are similar in voice use as well as in vocabulary and syntactic complexity, and that Chinese non-linguistic journal abstracts lack accuracy.